What's the difference between filth and gleam?

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.

Gleam


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To disgorge filth, as a hawk.
  • (n.) A shoot of light; a small stream of light; a beam; a ray; a glimpse.
  • (n.) Brightness; splendor.
  • (v. t.) To shoot, or dart, as rays of light; as, at the dawn, light gleams in the east.
  • (v. t.) To shine; to cast light; to glitter.
  • (v. t.) To shoot out (flashes of light, etc.).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Archaeologists still argue about what it originally held, but visitors can now peer inside and see gleaming in the darkness a statue of Taharqa, loaned by Southampton museums.
  • (2) Every bit of her gleams with a sweet and shiny polish: which is probably a natural residue of her southern-belle charm, but is probably also partly attributable to the professional gloss the 20-year-old seems to have acquired with remarkable ease over her nascent two-year film career.
  • (3) Half a dozen bodyguards fan out from the trucks, and when they are in position, the Ace slowly climbs down from the driving seat of his gleaming landcruiser.
  • (4) Crumbling infrastructure will be replaced with new roads, bridges, tunnels, airports and railways gleaming across our beautiful land,” Trump said in his speech before Congress last Tuesday as he renewed a campaign promise, vowing to ask Congress for a $1tn infrastructure investment package financed through public and private capital.
  • (5) In this she differs from both Jeremy Corbyn and the gleaming-eyed Brexiteers, who share a belief in a route-map to the promised land.
  • (6) Now Murray and his team-mates – whoever they may be in the final, although his brother, Jamie, is nailed on after reaching two major doubles finals this year – will stare more history in the face, a chance to lift the gleaming goblet for the first time since Fred Perry helped win it in 1936, the year he abandoned British tennis for a life among the professionals in America.
  • (7) Downing Street has refused to release the guest list for this year's bash at the private Hurlingham members' club in Fulham, west London, but the gleaming Rolls-Royces and Jaguars streaming through the gates gave a hint of the wealthy passengers heading inside.
  • (8) The eyes gleamed with fury, like the glimpse of flame you have on opening the air vent in a wood stove.
  • (9) Of course the polarisation of old and young rests on a fallacy, if not a downright lie: that all young people possess perfect skin and gleaming hair, have non-stop sex, are bursting with energy and are never lonely.
  • (10) Tsipras of Athens – a gripping drama entering its final act | Larry Elliott Read more Perhaps you have an image of Deutschland as being a nation of highly skilled, highly rewarded workers in gleaming factories.
  • (11) At one point, one knelt in front of the gleaming coffin topped with white roses.
  • (12) At the meeting Burragubba played the didgeridoo, a performance he repeated outside the bank’s gleaming glass and steel headquarters in the City.
  • (13) In the flesh, though, he's more Bruce Forsyth than Bruce Willis: sweet-eyed, gleaming-teethed, with a keen ear for innuendo and a frankly mucky chuckle.
  • (14) Speaking in Donetsk's Victoria hotel – a gleaming multistorey edifice next to the city's state-of-the-art Donbass football stadium – Taruta says he's confident presidential elections due on 25 May will take place.
  • (15) We put stuff in there that was not really that good, but fortunately there were a couple of gleaming things that everyone remembers while they've forgotten the dross."
  • (16) For mid-century Americans, these gleaming marketplaces provided an almost utopian alternative to the urban commercial district, an artificial downtown with less crime and fewer vermin.
  • (17) Photograph: Supplied by LMK Earlier this year, the Post – whose traffic numbers reached a record 83.1m unique visitors in September 2016, a 40% year-on-year increase – moved from its former base to a gleaming, light-filled building on K Street, where reporters sit cheek-by-jowl with software engineers.
  • (18) This sort of rabid protectionism might feel depressingly inevitable in the gleaming, super-efficient first world of tournaments such as Germany 2006.
  • (19) Behind 300 metres of gleaming chain-link fence, men in high-vis jackets paced and measured, while one man stood and watched.
  • (20) The oil boom has led to an influx of luxury brands and gleaming Rolls Royce showrooms and upmarket shopping malls studded with Gucci, Lacoste and Prada stores line the streets of downtown Baku.