filthiness

Example Sentences

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“I’ve never seen that kind of filthiness in my life, like there was 100 women and twice as much kids, running around, too much noise, filthy beds,” she said.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 8, 2023

On its face, the trailer makes the film look like a run-of-the-mill entry into the genre: If it’s distinguished by anything, it’s by the exceptional filthiness of the lucre on display.

From Slate • May 2, 2018

The filthiness of these messages isn’t throwaway humor: It’s a self-aware way of measuring just how dire the world has gotten.

From Slate • Feb. 15, 2017

John Ruskin saw nothing but "horror and ugliness, and filthiness of sin".

From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2010

"I saw the queues, the shortages, the filthiness of public lavatories, the bureaucracy, the corruption, the red tape, the rudeness of officials, the impossibility of obtaining redress when one had a complaint," he remembered.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau