filthy
foul with, characterized by, or having the nature of filth; disgustingly or completely dirty.
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.
Slang. (especially in sports) formidable: a young rookie with a filthy curveball; knocked down by a filthy right hook.
Idioms about filthy
filthy rich, outrageously wealthy; very rich.
Origin of filthy
1synonym study For filthy
Other words from filthy
- filth·i·ly, adverb
- filth·i·ness, noun
Words Nearby filthy
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How to use filthy in a sentence
The hornets also spent 94 percent less time chewing at filthy hive fronts.
Honeybees fend off deadly hornets by decorating hives with poop | Asher Jones | January 19, 2021 | Science News For StudentsThey took a few souvenirs, and one filthy lieutenant ventured into the president’s dressing room and put on one of the president’s clean linen shirts.
In 1814, British forces burned the U.S. Capitol | Joel Achenbach | January 6, 2021 | Washington PostSly and The Family Stone are many people’s all-time favorite groups, so if you really want to smudge the filthy energy of 2020 away, play this song loudly and dance good vibes into your life and new year.
Charlie Wilson Embraces 2021 With A ‘Thankful New Year’ Playlist | cmurray | January 1, 2021 | Essence.comThe rich and the famous are rarely at a loss for the appropriate materials to make a will, an act that has commonly extended for long stretches of the calendar to properly disperse filthy lucre and, on occasion, revenge.
While today’s natural language processing systems are more powerful than Tay, they suffer from a similar problem—if trained on filthy, controversial text, they learn to parrot the filth.
Suddenly, light flooded the room, and I found myself lying on a filthy orange sofa across the room from where my rape occurred.
I Was Gang Raped at a UVA Frat 30 Years Ago, and No One Did Anything | Liz Seccuro | December 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAt this point in his life, Denton has enough filthy lucre in his bank account to affect a certain lack of interest in the stuff.
The Gospel According to Nick Denton—What Next For The Gawker Founder? | Lloyd Grove | December 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTYou better take it before your filthy fraudulent self is bared to the nation.
Why the FBI’s Suicide Note to MLK Still Matters | Nick Gillespie | November 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTStep too far off the beaten path and you could be faced with diseased rodents and filthy insects.
New York’s Scariest Night Out: The Ghosts, Rats, and Lunatics of ‘Nightmare New York’ | Justin Jones | October 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDuring the heated contest versus Big Piney, Kane tells us that even the referee told him, “You guys are nothing but filthy slobs.”
Native American Basketball Team in Wyoming Have Hoop Dreams Of Their Own | Robert Silverman | August 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNo escape from the steadily rising flood of letters and files,—none from the swarms of filthy flies.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonThis strip of land from ocean to ocean abounded in disease-breeding swamps and filthy habitations unfit for human beings.
The Wonder Book of Knowledge | VariousWho answered, and said to them that stood before him, saying: Take away the filthy garments from him.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousIn my new prison, black and filthy to an extreme, I sadly missed the society of my little dumb friend.
My Ten Years' Imprisonment | Silvio PellicoDot claimed that one of those filthy tabloids had offered her that much for them—and what was a poor working-girl to do?
In the Dark | Ronal Kayser
British Dictionary definitions for filthy
/ (ˈfɪlθɪ) /
characterized by or full of filth; very dirty or obscene
offensive or vicious: that was a filthy trick to play
informal, mainly British extremely unpleasant: filthy weather
extremely; disgustingly: filthy rich
Derived forms of filthy
- filthily, adverb
- filthiness, noun
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