filthy
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One sailor posted a video online that went viral showing filthy toilets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 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
Levi sits on the filthy floor right in front of him.
From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty
"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
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
The prosperous western neighborhoods boasted elegant shops, cafes and residences; proletarian eastern Paris was filthier and more crowded than ever.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2014
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
We celebrated everything we could, bouncing from fancy restaurant to the filthiest dive bars we could find every week.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2023
Restaurant: Impossible Chef Robert Irvine heads to the Jalisco Cafe in San Diego where he tackles one of the filthiest kitchens of his career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2022
It used to be notorious as one of the filthiest waterways in America, a poster child for urban decline and environmental ruin.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2020
People didn’t know Martha was funny — much less that she could go toe-to-toe with some of the filthiest comedians.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 14, 2017
And he had to take a lot of the filthiest medicine I ever tasted.
From New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune by E. (Edith) Nesbit
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