Filthy
['fɪlθɪ] or ['fɪlθi]
Definition
(adj.) disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter; 'as filthy as a pigsty'; 'a foul pond'; 'a nasty pigsty of a room' .
Edited by ELLA--From WordNet
Definition
(superl.) Defiled with filth, whether material or moral; nasty; dirty; polluted; foul; impure; obscene.
Typist: Lycurgus
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Dirty, nasty, foul, unclean, squalid.[2]. Impure, gross, corrupt.
Typist: Nigel
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Dirty, nasty, dingy, impure, unclean, squalid, foul
ANT:Pure, sweet, clean
Typed by Clarissa
Examples
- That is filthy. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands, remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Of course, everybody got fearfully drunk--but in an interesting way, not like that filthy London crowd. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was indeed a filthy process in which I was engaged. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- He was a dreadful old man to look at, in a filthy flannel waistcoat, and smelling terribly of rum. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- She was dressed in a single filthy, ragged garment, made of bagging; and stood with her hands demurely folded before her. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The street was very narrow and muddy, and the air was impregnated with filthy odours. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- It is a filthy and vile book, said the priest. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The kennel was stagnant and filthy. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Your good cause, as far as I understand it, is simply the restoration of that filthy, feeble Ferdinand to a throne which he disgraced. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- That exemplary brother and sister--lived and died in the foulest and filthiest degradation. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- No filthier than Pablo, the gypsy justified himself. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Checker: Yale