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

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

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

Out of it came a stench, not the sickly odour of decay in the meads of Morgul, but a foul reek, as if filth unnameable were piled and hoarded in the dark within.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien