filth
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2.0
- noun
- /fɪlθ/
- After playing outside all day, the children came home covered in filth from head to toe.
- filth and squalor
- filth and dirt
- accumulated filth
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Watch on YouTubeHe says your old cloak has a plentiful load of filth to carry about with it.
- He says your old cloak has a plentiful load of filth to carry about with it.
- I want you to imagine right up till here in filth.
- You could either build your home, clean your home, or you could sit there in your filth and just play victim.
- I, I talked to dozens of Park Rangers whose main job now is to get up and just scrub off the filth, scrub off the graffiti, clean it up.
- And he was in filth and he was filth, right?
- He talks about the mud in the streets and the filth in the street.
- He'd he'd added wasting hunger, squalor, filth of his body.
- I'm just glad Hef isn't alive to see his life's worth dragged through the filth like this.
Examples
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We will rinse away all the filth from our gutters.
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It's time we wiped the filth off the streets of this great city.
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You could either build your home, clean your home, or you could sit there in your filth and just play victim.
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And we clean it up, the filth they make, and they hate us for it.
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Let me just clean up their filth.
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I am covered in filth.
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The filth from the street on that shoe.
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I will not be rescued in such filth.
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They'd rather live in this filth.
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There's more filth in this place than in the city sewers.
Synonyms
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1.0
Substance that makes things unclean
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3.3
Waste water from toilets and drains that goes away through pipes
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8.0
Dirty and unpleasant living conditions caused by poverty or neglect
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2.3
Dirt and soot that make a surface look dirty
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6.3
Dirty, sticky stuff that makes things unclean
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7.5
Something that damages a person's good name
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6.0
A state of being dirty and likely to spread disease
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1.0
Not being clean because it has mud, dust or stains
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4.2
A very dirty state with waste and rubbish
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6.1
Dirt and grime that make something dirty
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6.3
A very dirty condition caused by garbage or waste
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4.9
A very dirty state that smells bad and disgusts people
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5.5
A state when a place or person is dirty and not cared for
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9.9
Dirty mess or rubbish that makes a place unpleasant
Dirt or mess that makes something dirty
Very dirty and unpleasant places caused by poverty or lack of care
Antonyms
How Dirty
Surface Forms
Etymology
Filth comes from an old English word for 'dirt' and is related to the common word foul, meaning 'dirty' or 'bad'. So filth still means actual dirt or a very dirty, foul state.