filth
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Fourteen, if you count Harry Brook's wrong-footed part-time filth.
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026
It’s a matter of washing off the filth—with unnatural chemicals, at that—versus never picking up the filth in the first place.
From Slate • Feb. 13, 2026
However, because of nesting pigeons within the entry, he said the filth and pest problem in the lane is worse than ever.
From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026
"We're literally living in filth," said Rakotondrina on a tour permeated by the powerful stench of urine.
From Barron's • Oct. 17, 2025
They believe that all flying, creeping things are pests, born of filth and decay.
From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman
Vocabulary lists containing filth
Theodore Roosevelt on "The Man with the Muck Rake" (1906)
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