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filthy

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adjective

foul with, characterized by, or having the nature of filth; disgustingly or completely dirty.

vile; vulgar; obscene: filthy language.

contemptibly offensive, vile, or objectionable: to treat one's friends in a filthy manner.

(of money) abundantly supplied (often followed by with): They're filthy with money.

verb (used with object)

to make filthy; foul.

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Idiom

filthy rich, outrageously wealthy; very rich.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English; see filth, -y¹

Related forms

filth·i·ly, adverb

filth·i·ness, noun

Synonyms
1. See dirty.

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Example Sentences

Obviously the guy in the photo is a feeder of these foul and filthy fowl.

In short, natural gas may burn clean, but extracting it is extremely filthy.

It could also make clean firms a lot of filthy cash.

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Obviously the guy in the photo is a feeder of these foul and filthy fowl.

In short, natural gas may burn clean, but extracting it is extremely filthy.

It could also make clean firms a lot of filthy cash.

Soon you'll be doing filthy tricks that you once dreamed were insurmountable.

Pigs are disgusting filthy creatures that should phased out of our food chain.

She leans casually on her spinning frame, staring out at the camera, dressed in a filthy work smock.

Dirty, filthy tricks that helps marketing propagate.

Some of what the sink spectators witnessed was, well, filthy.

He's made a lot of his employees filthy rich as well--but they, of course, are all professional mathematicians by training.

He found the city filthy and anarchic, and with a businessman's can-do spirit, he cleaned it up.

Shortly you'll be executing filthy stunts that you once concluded were insurmountable.

Jesus said that he who is filthy let him remain filthy still.

She held one up to the light, squinted at a filthy smudge-and was astonished to see ghostly faces staring back at her.

For us, part of the machismo of working on cars is getting filthy.

They are barefoot and their filthy clothes, almost rags, hang loosely from their bodies.

Shortly you'll be taking on filthy stunts that you once concluded were inconceivable.

They have tons of filthy polluting diesel buses driving fat tourists around.

Just typing on the thing with your filthy hands probably does more damage.

The unfair plutocracy of the filthy rich must have surely hit a lot of raw nerves.

Shortly you'll be doing filthy tricks that you once concluded were unachievable.

If a day care center is spreading e coli from diapers, it's a filthy day care center, not a problem with milk.

Filthy coal-fired power plants spew carbon into the air.

Filthy railway stationsA shiny metro rail network in the administrative capital.

She appears to be sleeping under a filthy brown sheet.

Most of the energy in the current wind/gas backup scam comes from burning the filthy gas in low efficiency fast spooling units.

Legion of extraordinary filthy beards with mild suicidal tendencies.

Shortly you'll be accomplishing filthy stunts that you once dreamed were unachievable.

But then again, the oil industry is quite powerful and politicians feed freely at their trough of filthy money.

We are going to be so filthy rich, it is ridiculous.

Before long you'll be taking on filthy stunts that you once speculated were unachievable.

And if you're chuckling right now, you have a filthy mind.

Before long you'll be creating filthy tricks that you once thought were impossible.

Leave your puppy unattended for long enough and it'll become so filthy and distressed that it'll run away.

Shortly you'll be creating filthy stunts that you once concluded were out of the question.

Eventually and at long last, this filthy goblin won the day.

Before long you'll be accomplishing filthy tricks that you once concluded were inconceivable.

But not every open-sourcer has proven so averse to filthy lucre.

Shortly you'll be achieving filthy stunts that you once thought were unachievable.

He dresses in filthy clothing and eats what he can find.

The train was filthy and there was no respite from the dirt and heat.

My driver said that, a few weeks before, there was a filthy stream running from the pipes into the water.

In my house, three or four of them are already filthy from use.

They were swapping semi-dirty jokes, nothing filthy.

The first time-30-odd miles into the bush-the fan-belt snapped, the engine boiled over in a filthy froth, the.

They whitewash ledges and pick at filthy crumbs in the gutter.

Although the engine was filthy and covered with all sorts of spider webs and nests of various kinds, it was.

The managers also said that many cans and bottles returned by the homeless were filthy and a health risk.

Flows would be screened to remove big chunks, but filthy water would remain untreated.

By that time, you'll be filthy rich and happy to share.

These chairs were upholstered in white and absolutely filthy.

Residents are infuriated by filthy air and water that kills people and damages unborn children.

Herdsmen in filthy chubas roam the dirt streets in.

Nour was brought in and locked in a foul-smelling, filthy cage to hear his fate.

On another, she was crammed with her family in a toilet stall so filthy the stench saved her:.

Wonder if he will do the right for once in his filthy life by disclosing his share of the spoils was and where it is stashed away.

But what's good for them isn't necessarily good for you, no matter how much filthy lucre they throw your way.

Wells are private: filthy water is a commodity for sale.

By contrast, they were bone-weary, filthy and underfed.

His filthy coal plants kill millions worldwide and sicken hundreds of millions more with air pollution.

It's got nothing to do with our parents being filthy rich.

The addiction recovery industry is filthy with myth, misinformation and pseudo-science.

Burning fossil fuels is a filthy habit, and the supply won't last forever.

Turkey factory farms are so crowded and filthy that they are perfect reservoirs for disease.

All that to live in a filthy mess of construction frenzy lacking basic infrastructure such as decent access roads.

When green storage replaces the filthy gas cost increases by a buck a kwh.

Don't forget to clean off the contacts on your games if they look filthy.

Just one more failure of ethics and morals to supersede the filthy politics of expediency.

Clicking on them revealed photos of an apartment interior-a bedroom, a kitchen, a filthy living room.

The animals are raised in crowded and perhaps filthy settings.

Although the engine was filthy and covered with all sorts of spider webs and nests of various kinds, it was intact.

Although my particular car was filthy and the woman across the aisle kept spitting into a cup, the ride was comfortable.

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World English Dictionary

filthy (ˈfɪlθɪ)

—*adj* , filthier, filthiest
1.	characterized by or full of filth; very dirty or obscene
2.	offensive or vicious: that was a filthy trick to play
3.	informal chiefly (Brit) extremely unpleasant: filthy weather

—*adv*
4.	extremely; disgustingly: filthy rich

'filthily

—*adv*

'filthiness

—n

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Word Origin & History

filthy

late 12c., fulthe, corrupt, sinful, from filth + -y (2). Meaning physically unclean is from late 14c. Related: Filthiness.

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