filth
- offensive or disgusting dirt or refuse; foul matter: the filth dumped into our rivers.
- foul condition: to live in filth.
- moral impurity, corruption, or obscenity.
- vulgar or obscene language or thought.
Origin of filth
Related Words for filth
smut, grime, slime, garbage, putrefaction, manure, sludge, uncleanness, slop, impurity, mud, muck, putrescence, mire, trash, corruption, silt, crud, slush, dungExamples from the Web for filth
Contemporary Examples of filth
With the money came the filth, and the contemptuous lewdness you see in the film are based on actual claims in the book.
That night, I dreamed of a square, three-story, concrete building that was dark and dingy with filth, dust, and cobwebs.
Adapted from a book by the same author, Filth has arrived with an identical swagger.
He tried to peddle this filth all over Washington, but not one member of Congress or one member of the press corps would touch it.
The head of the BBC Trust, the former governor of Hong Kong, Chris Patten, described the allegations as a “tsunami of filth.”
Historical Examples of filth
Rags and tidiness, filth and cleanliness, lay almost touching.
KMary Roberts Rinehart
The posters, maculated with filth, garnished like tapestry the sweep of the curbstone.
The Secret AgentJoseph Conrad
They no more wanted to be touched by iron than by filth, or foul disease.
Welsh Fairy TalesWilliam Elliott Griffis
When nobody else can find any filth left, he manages to discover some.
The Three Cities Trilogy, CompleteEmile Zola
She had to wallow in filth instead of having flowers all about her.
L'AssommoirEmile Zola
filth
- foul or disgusting dirt; refuse
- extreme physical or moral uncleanliness; pollution
- vulgarity or obscenity, as in language
- the filth derogatory, slang the police
Word Origin for filth
Word Origin and History for filth
Old English fylð "uncleanness, impurity," from Proto-Germanic *fulitho (cf. Old Saxon fulitha "foulness, filth," Dutch vuilte, Old High German fulida), noun derivative of *fulo- "foul" (see foul (adj.)). A classic case of i-mutation.