filth
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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
"We're literally living in filth," said Rakotondrina on a tour permeated by the powerful stench of urine.
From Barron's • Oct. 17, 2025
It has not been revealed how many of the dogs came from the house in Tickhill, Doncaster, where they were discovered living in filth before being rescued by the RSPCA.
From BBC • Sep. 16, 2025
Having lost everything, they suffer filth, hunger and disease during a months-long voyage to uncertainty.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2025
I guess I developed some kind of canker sores in my intestines because of the Merrick’s, and filth leaked out into the rest of my body.
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing filth
Theodore Roosevelt on "The Man with the Muck Rake" (1906)
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