filth

Example Sentences

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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

Stinking of the filth he’d rolled in, he concluded that he was probably on the wrong path.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2025

The musicians wink and smile at each other as they play, and I see then that they are the secret emissaries of a worldwide lower-class conspiracy to snatch joy out of degradation and filth.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich