What's the difference between filth and firth?

Filth


Definition:

  • (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.

Firth


Definition:

  • (n.) An arm of the sea; a frith.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) AP Magic in the Moonlight Colin Firth in Magic in the Moonlight Woody Allen remains a hero at Cannes, an arena largely untroubled by accusation and counter-accusation surrounding his private life.
  • (2) On the banks of the Firth of Forth, the Longannet power station dominates the wintry horizon, a massive box in the shadow of its skyscraper chimney stack.
  • (3) However, one of the channel's British reporters, Sara Firth, appeared to go off message with a series of disparaging tweets in which she said the channel's reporters were engaged in lies.
  • (4) The kidney taken from a rat rendered nephrotic by exposure to puromycin aminonucleoside retains sodium abnormally when perfused in isolation and has an abnormally low vascular resistance (J. D. Firth et al., Clin.
  • (5) In a letter to Rochester voters, David Cameron said the two candidates were Anna Firth and Kelly Tolhurst, two local councillors.
  • (6) Magic in the Moonlight, which stars Colin Firth, Stone and Jackie Weaver, is released on 25 July in the US, on 28 August in Australia and 19 September in the UK.
  • (7) Changes in abundance at haul-out sites were followed, and data on the number of deaths collected, to describe the pattern and extent of mortality resulting from the 1988 phocine distemper virus outbreak in the Moray Firth common seal population.
  • (8) Rebecca Howett, 27, Edinburgh, Scotland Facebook Twitter Pinterest Rebecca Howett, in the distance, wades into the water at Talisker Bay, Skye My usual swimming spot is Portobello beach , a long sandy beach on the Firth of Forth, a few miles east of Edinburgh, where a group of swimmers called the Wild Ones meet every Sunday morning.
  • (9) Yes, yes, Richard Gere in American Gigolo, Cary Grant in North by Northwest, Steve McQueen in Bullitt, Colin Firth and Daniel Craig in whatever, blah blah freaking blah.
  • (10) Darron Burness, head of the AA's flood rescue team, said areas most likely to be affected stretched from the Firth of Forth and down the east coast of England to Kent.
  • (11) Many TV writers have also added their names, including Andrew Davies – who wrote the Colin Firth adaptation of Pride and Prejudice for the BBC – and Jimmy McGovern, whose latest series Banished aired recently on BBC2.
  • (12) It was Chatsworth House, I remind Cooper, that served as Pemberley in that scene in Pride and Prejudice where Firth emerges from the lake, wet shirt clinging to his chest, and turns the knees of Jennifer Ehle's Elizabeth Bennet to jelly.
  • (13) Together, the books sold 15m copies in 40 countries and spawned two Hollywood films starring Renée Zellweger as Bridget and Colin Firth and Hugh Grant as her warring paramours.
  • (14) The campaign has attracted a coalition of public figures and companies , from Tottenham Hotspur, energy company EDF, the Guardian and online supermarket Ocado to chef Delia Smith, DJ Sara Cox, film stars Colin Firth and Samantha Morton, author Ian McEwan, former London mayor Ken Livingstone and economist Nicholas Stern.
  • (15) Magic in the Moonlight (25 July) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The latest from Woody Allen is something of a small gem, with Colin Firth and Emma Stone sauntering through a 1930s-era Côte d'Azur, saying witty things about magic and love and faith.
  • (16) Colin Firth will star in a thriller set in the morally murky world of military drones for the Ender's Game director, Gavin Hood, reports Screen .
  • (17) Whether the delay will result in scheduling issues for the in-demand Colin Firth is unclear, but he is expected to star alongside Renée Zellweger and Grant.
  • (18) A toast, marmalade optional, to Colin Firth, who has quit a film version of Paddington with a grace befitting this most cordial of bears.
  • (19) "I think it's a bit arrogant to say we're creating a bit of South Ken here," says Firth.
  • (20) Fielding has admitted that the original source for the plot came from Austen, as did the on-page and on-screen casting of "successful barrister Mark Darcy" (played by Colin Firth in both Pride and Prejudice and Bridget Jones ).

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