Filth
[fɪlθ]
Definition
(noun.) a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse.
(noun.) any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant.
Checked by Brady--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Foul matter; anything that soils or defiles; dirt; nastiness.
(n.) Anything that sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution.
Typist: Vern
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Dirt, foul matter.[2]. Grossness, corruption, pollution, impurity, nastiness.
Editor: Pratt
Definition
n. foul matter: anything that defiles physically or morally.—adv. Filth′ily.—n. Filth′iness.—adj. Filth′y foul: unclean: impure.
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Examples
- And he's got a craving to throw himself into the filth of her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- So I came into Smithfield; and the shameful place, being all asmear with filth and fat and blood and foam, seemed to stick to me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- We live in filth, and grow loathsome, till we loathe ourselves! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Oh, God and the Virgin, obscenity them in the milk of their filth. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- As water flows over the land, it gathers filth and disease germs. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The captain, standing in the open beside the boulder, commenced to shout filth at the hilltop. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Let the filth-faced obscenity blow it and be done. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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