(n.) Foul matter; anything that soils or defiles; dirt; nastiness.
(n.) Anything that sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution.
Example Sentences:
(1) And, of course, cities built on heavy industry had all the downsides of pollution, waste and filth.
(2) I recently discovered that I'm in The Filth and the Fury DVD eating cake and talking to Sid - my brother bought it me for Christmas.
(3) I couldn't handle the hangovers: waking up in the sticky filth of the Colony Room on the floor; sweating my way though meetings at White Cube; going to meet Larry [Gagosian] on the Anadin, the Nurofen, the Berocca and the Vicks nasal spray, looking like an alcoholic tramp.
(4) At its height he appeared to make light of the scandal using florid rhetoric, as he described the emerging revelations about sexual abuse as a "tsunami of filth".
(5) Filth and smoke hangs everywhere, clogging the very soul.
(6) "Don't worry," we say (and it is you and I) "keep them in as much filth as you like, we won't be asking any questions."
(7) Some Islamic traditions consider it blasphemous to make or show an image of the prophet, and Vilks's drawings were regarded as especially derogatory as dogs are a symbol of filth for many Muslims.
(8) A method has been developed for the isolation of light filth from food breadings.
(9) House fly pupae were suitable as hosts for U.rufipes at all ages; however, significantly higher parasitism occurred on host pupae aged 96-120 h. Parasite-induced mortality (host mortality without progeny production) was higher than for other pteromalid parasites of filth flies under similar conditions.
(10) James McAvoy was named best actor for his role in an adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel Filth.
(11) Everest base camp, a rocky plateau at 5,300m that is the starting point for climbing expeditions, has for years been the focus of clean-up operations after a series of stinging reports in the 1990s about rubbish and filth in what had once been pristine environments.
(12) During his press conference last week, Bo complained that critics had "poured filth" on him and his family.
(13) [McClure was directed by Madonna in her 2008 film Filth and Wisdom ] Yeah!
(14) Aside from the sheer filth factor, not washing your jeans means they will lose their shape (two words: baggy arse), smell and look dirty, because they are dirty.
(15) The method has been adopted official first action for extraction of light filth from whole leaves of alfalfa, papaya, and spearmint.
(16) Results are reported for a collaborative study of a method for the extraction of light filth from spirulina (a blue-green alga) powder and tablets.
(17) Collaborative results are presented for a proposed method for light filth extraction from ground beef or hamburger.
(18) *** Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘The Earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth.’ A landfill in Bhopal, India.
(19) Air pollution: a dark cloud of filth poisons the world’s cities Read more Much of the polluted air has drifted in from continental Europe and has been trapped by the cold air which is now spread over eastern England.
(20) The present official first action method for the isolation of light filth from fig and fruit paste, 44.083(a), occasionally yields excessive plant debris on filter papers, which causes difficulty in effectively counting insect filth.
Filthy
Definition:
(superl.) Defiled with filth, whether material or moral; nasty; dirty; polluted; foul; impure; obscene.
Example Sentences:
(1) It led to a filthy, overcrowded camp housing 43 Bangladeshi workers at the heart of the polluted, industrial Musaffah area, next to car repair and welding businesses.
(2) You'd never ask anybody else how much they make, but because I am in a position where you are 'filthy rich' from a young age, it becomes a curiosity.
(3) I congratulated him on the upsurge in his fortunes, such as his sideways move from squeezing, baking and daubing his filthy and infantile clay urns into broadcasting on the prestigious Channel 4 network.
(4) I climb the filthy stairwell and enter a small, dark reception area.
(5) Our people do not understand.” Chechnya’s press and information minister, Jambulat Umarov, wrote on Instagram that Novaya Gazeta should “apologise to the Chechen people” for the “filthy provocation” of suggesting gay people existed in Chechnya.
(6) But the filthy fiver, says Dr Ron Cutler, who led the study, could be the spark that lights the fire of an epidemic.
(7) His New York is a far scruffier place, with the grimy, old, Midnight Cowboy NYC rubbing against the gentrified Upper East Side, best expressed in an ordeal of a scene where Louie witnesses a virtuoso performance by a violinist while, behind the performer, an obese homeless man proceeds to disrobe and start washing himself with a bottle of filthy water.
(8) There is heavy traffic, swollen by often badly maintained and old trucks and buses; huge landfill rubbish dumps which are sometimes set on fire; filthy industries just a few miles from the city; two coal-fired power stations; nearby intensive construction which generates choking clouds of dust; and, seasonally, smoke from crop burning in fields from farmland in neighbouring states.
(9) I want to say sweet, silly things, and pat the little heads of people who, living in a filthy hell, can create such beauty."
(10) If you can kill a disbelieving American or European especially the spiteful and filthy French or an Australian, or a Canadian, or any other disbeliever from the disbelievers waging war, including the citizens of the countries that entered into a coalition against the Islamic State, then rely upon Allah, and kill him in any manner or way however it may be.
(11) A federal anti-racism commission called that a bad decision that would have "serious consequences", In another ruling on racism issues, the court said earlier this year that calling someone "foreign swine" or "filthy asylum seeker" may be insulting, but because the expressions are widely used insults in the German language, they do not constitute racist attacks.
(12) Or embrace the filthy weather with something more extreme.
(13) "By all accounts, it was dark and filthy, with an old bus-seat in place of a sofa.
(14) Under a pink mosquito dome in a shack among the filthy alleyways of sector two of the Malakal protection of civilians (PoC) camp lies 11-day-old Pul.
(15) The drinking water tanks are so filthy the pupils bring their own water.
(16) In The God Delusion I have a section called "Religious education as a part of literary culture" in which I list 129 biblical phrases which any cultivated English speaker will instantly recognise and many use without knowing their provenance: the salt of the earth; go the extra mile; I wash my hands of it; filthy lucre; through a glass darkly; wolf in sheep's clothing; hide your light under a bushel; no peace for the wicked; how are the mighty fallen.
(17) "Sanitary conditions at the prison are calculated to make the prisoner feel like a disempowered, filthy animal.
(18) When I was young, vegetarianism was still a cult activity practised by filthy, bendy-boned hippies or mawkishly sentimental teenage girls who would probably be keen to renege on the whole non-meat-eating deal if only they had the strength to lift a whole steak into a pan.
(19) It is also an inversion of the original New Labour platform, which sounded radical about society and the state – keen on new rights for gay people, keen on devolution, keen on human rights – but which was also fiercely pro-market and pro-City, "intensely relaxed" about people being "filthy rich".
(20) When I finally reached the top floor, the long corridor was filthy with dust that looked like it had accumulated over several months.