filthy

pronunciation

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Adjective:

disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter
vile; despicable
thoroughly unpleasant
characterized by obscenity

Word Origin

filthy (adj.): late 12c., fulthe, "corrupt, sinful," from filth + -y (2). Meaning "physically unclean, dirty, noisome" is from late 14c. Meaning "morally dirty, obscene" is from 1530s. In early use often hardly more emphatic than the mod. dirty; it is now a violent expression of disgust, seldom employed in polite colloquial speech. [OED] Related: Filthily; filthiness.

Synonym

adj.

sloppy piggish grubby slovenly unwashed gross unkempt dingy slummy scummy bedraggled shabby

adj.

scurvy base ignominious sordid mean low vile despicable contemptible

adj.

fetid polluted begrimed stained fecal foul rotten dirty unclean fly-blown grimy muddy mucky feculent tainted

adj.

risque smutty lewd gross bawdy corrupt foul-mouthed nasty pornographic obscene raunchy indecent vulgar depraved indelicate impure loose coarse

Example

1. The water is filthy with fecal matter .

2. All my righteousness is like filthy rags .

3. Mr sheets met hostages emerging from the inferno wounded filthy and in shock .

4. Come , get some water , and wash this filthy witness from your hands .

5. I thought sex would be all about screaming , dirty orgasms and filthy talk .

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