What's the difference between filthy and ordurous?

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.

Ordurous


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to ordure; filthy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But even Lang couldn't have anticipated the ordure that would descend on Zug following Clinton's decision.
  • (2) Residents have also complained about nasty smells and rats running through the ordure-strewn streets, but officials have denied there is a health risk in the southwestern town.
  • (3) And these are mere samples of the ordure Fleet Street and Twitter dumped on the BBC's sodden pageant coverage.
  • (4) The BBC management was up to its neck in corporate ordure.

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