filthy
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All of Slattery’s lines are filthy or pathetic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Only a few days after the pool was refilled, though, it reverted what it always is: a filthy slime pit that nevertheless does an adequate job of its primary objective: reflecting.
From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2026
This was a reference to North Korea dropping hundreds of balloons in 2024, which were later found to contain "filthy waste and trash", across the border in the South.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
"It was filthy, dirty and it leaked like a sieve for many years," he said in a White House video about the plan.
From Barron's ● Apr. 25, 2026
I was in a sea of gold now, a filthy gold ocean.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
"The state of 'neither war nor peace' is far filthier than war itself," 39-year-old Tehran resident Shahrzad told AFP.
From Barron's ● May 23, 2026
Yorgos Lanthimos earned a nomination five years ago for his last movie, the spiky period farce “The Favourite,” and his latest, “Poor Things,” is funnier, filthier and even more inventive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2023
That sponge, I reasoned, had to be way filthier than whatever Key Food filth had been lingering on the Coke I was about to bring to my lips.
From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2023
Russell groaned and wiped off the black ash with an even filthier cloth.
From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 2018
The water was filthier than she could have imagined.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
We celebrated everything we could, bouncing from fancy restaurant to the filthiest dive bars we could find every week.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2023
We all have the craziest, filthiest, wicked sense of humor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2023
His finest moment — or at least his filthiest — came with the viral Sara Lee “S.N.L.” sketch he wrote with his friend Julio Torres.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2020
Now imagine Lennon has steered your ship safely through a horrific storm, lashing himself to the captain’s chair and singing “the foulest, filthiest, manliest sea shanty” through the night.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2018
In the filthiest and most depraved districts of London, in the very heart of Roman Catholic Ireland, he has never been interfered with at all.
From The Religious Life of London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
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