filthy
[fil-thee]
- 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.
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- to make filthy; foul.
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- filthy rich, outrageously wealthy; very rich.
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Origin of filthy
Synonym study
1. See dirty.
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Related Words
muddy, disheveled, obscene, grubby, crummy, grimy, grungy, nasty, squalid, soiled, vicious, indecent, black, foul, gross, impure, loathsome, offensive, putrid, repulsiveExamples from the Web for filthy
Contemporary Examples
Suddenly, light flooded the room, and I found myself lying on a filthy orange sofa across the room from where my rape occurred.
You better take it before your filthy fraudulent self is bared to the nation.
Step too far off the beaten path and you could be faced with diseased rodents and filthy insects.
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During the heated contest versus Big Piney, Kane tells us that even the referee told him, “You guys are nothing but filthy slobs.”
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The article accused gays and lesbians of having a “filthy lifestyle” and blamed them for a series of social problems.
Historical Examples
By reason of filthy money no one can say to me: Do this, or do that.
Ballads of a BohemianRobert W. Service
His pockets are full of filthy paper on which he writes from time to time.
Ballads of a BohemianRobert W. Service
They are "safe, because they are too filthy to handle, and too noisome even to approach."
The Story of the Malakand Field ForceSir Winston S. Churchill
And it was Salvat who was there, now conquered and simply a filthy bundle.
The Three Cities Trilogy, CompleteEmile Zola
It was a filthy place and snow had drifted in through the openings in the roof and side.
The Long Labrador TrailDillon Wallace
filthy
- characterized by or full of filth; very dirty or obscene
- offensive or viciousthat was a filthy trick to play
- informal, mainly British extremely unpleasantfilthy weather
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- extremely; disgustinglyfilthy rich
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Word Origin and History for filthy
adj.
late 12c., fulthe, "corrupt, sinful," from filth + -y (2). Meaning "physically unclean" 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: Filthiness.
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