filth

noun

ˈfilth How to pronounce filth (audio)
Definition of filthnext
1
as in dirt
foul matter that mars the purity or cleanliness of something the filth in the restaurant's kitchen was unbelievable

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2
as in grossness
the quality or state of being obscene films full of filth and violence

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Recent Examples of filth Hollywood’s ghosts fill Lynch’s work, and so does its muck and its filth. — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025 Living in filth on a subway bench is a prime example. — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 15 Jan. 2025 Dragula features a unique roster of contestants seeking to fulfill the show's core competitive tenets of drag, filth, horror, and glamour. — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 10 Sep. 2024 As this imagery of toxicity, filth and corruption suggests, Lane had an almost adversarial attitude towards the gut; a myopic suspicion of the digestive system that came to govern his approach to treating patients and which would eventually lead to professional disgrace. — Elsa Richardson, TIME, 3 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for filth
Recent Examples of Synonyms for filth
  1. dirt
  2. muck
  3. vulgarity
  4. soil
  5. sewage
  6. obscenity
  7. sludge
  8. garbage
Noun
  • Megan’s body was found on a narrow dirt path on March 15, 2003, in Wallkill, New York.
    — Veronica Fulton, NBC News, 13 Mar. 2025
  • The lingering fumes of attention and magical aura somehow still surround the oddball Rodgers like the cloud of dirt around Pig-Pen in the Peanuts comic strip.
    — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 13 Mar. 2025
Definition of dirt
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  • When the trucks don’t arrive in time at a sewage plant near Cutler Bay, the smell from 350 tons of tarry black muck leftover from the daily processing of human waste can spread.
    — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2025
  • There are accounts of brown, swirling muck near the landfill, of barrels leaching amber ooze into the grasses and ground.
    — Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 3 Feb. 2025
Definition of muck
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  • Attention-grabbing vulgarity aside, Pearl was talking hoops, not other things that have been central to Auburn men’s basketball discourse of late.
    — Joe Rexrode, The Athletic, 15 Mar. 2025
  • So cheers to Schulz—and Emma, who agreed to share their story—for helping to normalize IVF, even if vulgarity was his way of doing so!
    — Melissa Willets, Parents, 10 Mar. 2025
Definition of vulgarity
Noun
  • Two dark-brown mushrooms stuck out of the damp soil.
    — Shayla Love, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2025
  • What To Know South Florida is home to hundreds of thousands of Cubans, many of whom fled their home country and claimed immunity from immigration enforcement by having already arrived on United States soil.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
Definition of soil
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  • Lately, the world has been seeing apocalyptic images of the devastation in northern Gaza—a landscape without sewage, running water, or machines to clear rubble.
    — Ayesha Khan, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
  • The United Nations says more than 90% of homes have been damaged or destroyed, overwhelmingly by Israeli airstrikes, along with most hospitals, schools and basic infrastructure like water, sewage and electricity networks.
    — Aya Batrawy, NPR, 3 Mar. 2025
Definition of sewage
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  • Yet the movie also contains, by my count, more than a dozen significant obscenities, as well as enough death to scar the Bluey crowd for life.
    — Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Other states don’t allow numerical digits, obscenity, or names of people who have committed atrocities, according to US Birth Certificates.
    — Anna Halkidis, Parents, 23 Jan. 2025
Definition of obscenity
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  • After the sludge is treated in Fort Worth, it is sent to farms in Johnson, Hill and Wise counties.
    — Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Haigh confessed to the murders after forensic investigators confirmed the sludge found in his workshop contained human remains, according to The History Press.
    — Sean Neumann, People.com, 9 Mar. 2025
Definition of sludge
Noun
  • Lira, remembering the garbage, quickly takes out the trash.
    — Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Leave the garbage can open and place it in the sun to fully dry before closing it or putting a garbage bag in it.
    — Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Mar. 2025
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