What's the difference between filth and wallow?

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.

Wallow


Definition:

  • (n.) To roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire.
  • (n.) To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner.
  • (n.) To wither; to fade.
  • (v. t.) To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean.
  • (n.) A kind of rolling walk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) University websites wallowed in self-congratulation in the wake of the REF, where experts assessed research in 36 subject areas, looking at quality, the infrastructure that supported it, and its impact on the outside world.
  • (2) Let them wallow in the content that Bolt provides them, carefully calibrated to both infuriate Australia’s dwindling bigoted minority while reassuring them.
  • (3) As the turbulent commercial radio sector enters another new phase, Park wants to sweep away the thinking that has left too many of his colleagues wallowing in self-pity, and turn his fire on a familiar target.
  • (4) Her parents divorced when she was young, money was tight and there was no cable TV to wallow in.
  • (5) Unashamedly wallowing in pop Celebrating its 18th birthday, this year's V line-up reads like a typical, if solidly suburban, teenage house party playlist.
  • (6) The outrage is thumped home by this coincidence of timing: that the Premier League has reached its quarter century, now wallowing in £2.8bn annual television deals, with clubs spending £50m on right-backs , in the same year that the authorities have finally brought criminal charges for those deaths 28 years ago.
  • (7) Trimming, triangulating, sneaking small policy advantages and wallowing in the narcissism of small differences, the parties seemed locked in a distant and disreputable Westminster charade.
  • (8) The message is loud and clear to all dictators: you can arrest the opposition every other day, pass draconian laws and let your country wallow in poverty, as long as your troops are available for us when we need to go on a peace keeping mission in, say, Somalia.
  • (9) It was 12.24am, local time, when Alessandro Diamanti walked forward for the final, decisive kick and, when it was all done, Italy had booked a semi-final against Germany while England were wallowing in the familiar sense of deja vu that comes with another harrowing disappointment in a penalty shoot-out.
  • (10) When inspiration strikes, you have to hope that the other 10 people on stage will give you space to wallow in your "moment".
  • (11) Other newspapers, too, wallowed in the rumours of orgiastic high court judges, sado-masochistic cabinet ministers and aristocratic sex slaves wearing cards that read 'If my services don't please you, whip me'.
  • (12) Kevin and Perry Go Large is an excuse to wallow vicariously in the misery of adolescence.
  • (13) There, you wallow in yesteryear’s fabulosity, cast off by someone whose spending habits you’re morally outraged by but whose taste you can’t fault.
  • (14) He says his research allowed him to wallow in 70s conspiracy films such as The Conversation, The Parallax View and Three Days of the Condor, "though reading Pynchon and the Illuminatus!
  • (15) To wallow in it would be fun but sullying, and also obscures the fact that Simmonds has done us a favour.
  • (16) "The pursuit of judicial refuge may produce a paradoxical effect: in the short term a rich infusion of talent for the benches; but beyond that, critics argue, the future looks bleak.Sympathy for barristers – popularly perceived as wallowing in claret, six-figure salaries and refresher fees – is limited.
  • (17) When he wasn't writing, he was usually swimming, most often in his moat, or wallowing in the massive cast-iron bath that lived at the back of the house.
  • (18) It’s so routine.” Media coverage of climate change in Fiji doesn’t have the luxury of wallowing in the sort of cosseted denialism seen in the US, Britain or Australia.
  • (19) It would be amazing to be able to relish the moment and wallow in some exciting new technology and upcoming entertainment, but unfortunately it's all coming loaded with all this woolly, drab bullshit around it.
  • (20) A sly kick at the rear of Winston Reid’s legs prompted the winger’s second yellow card – and an early wallow in the Radox.