(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.
Vicious
Definition:
(a.) Characterized by vice or defects; defective; faulty; imperfect.
(a.) Addicted to vice; corrupt in principles or conduct; depraved; wicked; as, vicious children; vicious examples; vicious conduct.
(a.) Not correct or pure; corrupt; as, vicious language; vicious idioms.
(a.) Not well tamed or broken; given to bad tricks; unruly; refractory; as, a vicious horse.
(a.) Bitter; spiteful; malignant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Los Angeles were relentless in their vicious pursuit of a game-tying goal on Wednesday, bidding to send Game 4 into overtime.
(2) But when in mid-October two of the artists received death threats, the menaces were widely reported and rekindled debate, prompting vicious, anti-Muslim comments on Danish talk shows.
(3) When he attacked New York, his vicious crusade was as much against skyscrapers as it was against western values and the US.
(4) A vicious feud playing out within Uzbekistan's ruling family took a new twist on Monday , when prosecutors announced that the clan's most flamboyant member faces charges of involvement in mafia-style corruption.
(5) This was evident just this week when, as an example, a young woman in San Francisco was viciously killed by a five-time deported Mexican with a long criminal record, who was forced back into the United States because they didn’t want him in Mexico.
(6) Each of these reactions can increase the perception of chest pain, contributing to a vicious cycle that exacerbates both the chest pain and the anxiety.
(7) This vicious circle should be broken rather by finding optimal conditions than by a middle course determined by experimental requirements, economical frames and general notions about what may be good for the animal.
(8) In spite of the relatively large sample and the given number of variables the problem of the vicious circle might occur.
(9) Recent data are cited for the proposition that these changes constitute a closed pathogenetic concatenation creating a vicious circle.
(10) When there is upheaval within China’s own borders – riots, protests, vicious political power struggles – hardly a sniff of it will be found in the pages of the country’s heavily-controlled press.
(11) According to the International Crisis Group , tensions within and between the two major political parties, competing claims to the presidency between northern and Niger Delta politicians and along religious lines, along with inadequate preparations by the electoral commission and apparent bias by security agencies, suggest the country is heading toward a volatile and vicious electoral contest.
(12) A vicious circle with the increased resistance as the key factor can be identified.
(13) This vicious cycle could be interrupted by segmental epidural anesthesia with procaine as well as by blockade of sympathoexcitation at the central nervous level with clonidine in anesthetized dogs.
(14) This is in stark comparison to the gruesome, vicious suffering that he inflicted on his two victims – and the lifetime of suffering he has caused their family.” Wood was executed for shooting to death Debra Dietz, his former girlfriend, and her father, Eugene Dietz, in Tucson in 1989.
(15) Spicer, who so viciously attacked the press on Saturday, had to hurriedly walk back the comments of his boss when Trump, during an interview with the Washington Post before the inauguration, promised “insurance for everybody”.
(16) Using mathematical models of the population dynamics of T helper cells, HIV and other pathogens we address three facets of the interactions between HIV and other pathogens: enhanced HIV replication due to immune stimulation by other pathogens; modified immune control of other pathogens due to immunosuppression by HIV; and the vicious circle formed by positive feedback between these two effects.
(17) Since the initially peaceful demonstrations against his regime began more than three years ago, he has proved himself, by turns, foolish, craven and vicious.
(18) He said US prisons were tough and safe enough to handle the most vicious al-Qaida terrorist suspects now held at Guantánamo.
(19) When Cruise announced last October that he was suing Bauer, his lawyer, Bert Fields, described the claim that the actor had deserted his daughter as a “vicious lie”.
(20) Meanwhile, people in poor countries are already battling its vicious storms.