filthy
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Politics may be “a filthy business,” as Agrippa observes, but in the hands of Mr. Harris, it is a drama of endless interest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Outside the Lineage warehouse Thursday morning, the smell of heavy smoke was already being replaced with that of spoiling food and filthy water.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 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
If something whipped back and forth, it also needed to spin on an axis, bob up and down, and hurl through a jet spray of filthy water.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
"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
In fact, such a thing had been in the works since the 1950s, but instead of hurrying to get them assembly-line ready as L.A. was sickening with smog, Detroit just made bigger, filthier cars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
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
He was filthier than usual, with dirt encrusted on his face and ringing his scalp.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
Yet Guadagnino can’t help but sand every coarse surface; even the filthiest walls here look carefully buffed to perfection.
From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2024
In a school playground squeezed between two main roads, children play tag in some of Sheffield's filthiest air.
From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2023
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
Perhaps--without care--the mouth is the filthiest cavity of the body.
From Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America
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