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

She said her fellow housemates lived "in stink and filth".

From BBC • Jun. 17, 2025

Having lost everything, they suffer filth, hunger and disease during a months-long voyage to uncertainty.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2025

Along the dirt roads, the gutters were filled with small rivers of filth and debris that smelled of rotting food and rank liquids.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee