filth
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Old Filth himself is a retired judge looking back on life, with recollections of the British Empire in better days.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
Nsg says he was inspired by the Julien Temple film “The Filth and the Fury” on the Sex Pistols.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2022
The as-yet-untitled project will be Madonna's third as director after 2008's Filth and Wisdom and 2011's WE, which was based around King Edward VIII's affair with Wallis Simpson.
From BBC • Sep. 15, 2020
Filth and disease were everywhere: Cholera, staph infections, deadly pneumonia and even polio.
From Salon • May 23, 2020
Filth had laid seige to the Ayemenem House like a medieval army advancing on an enemy castle.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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Theodore Roosevelt on "The Man with the Muck Rake" (1906)
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