filth

Noun

Meaning

Foul matter; anything that soils or defiles; dirt; nastiness.

Anything that sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

smut crud soil dirt stain obscenity grease grime nastiness filthiness foulness dirty word vulgarism grunge carrion
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Antonyms

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Hypernyms

waste profanity dirtiness waste product uncleanness waste matter

Hyponyms

bawdy bawdry scatology

Phrases with the word

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Examples

The frame wearied with labours lies prostrate on the ground, but it is no penalty to lie down with Christ. Your limbs unbathed, are foul and disfigured with filth and dirt; but within they are spiritually cleansed, although without the flesh is defiled. Cyprian

[Nietzsche] attributes to himself an extremely vivid and sensitive instinct of cleanliness. At the first contact the filth lying at the base of another's nature is revealed to him. The unclean are therefore ill at ease hi his presence. Georg Brandes

To him who has nothing it is forbidden not to relish filth. Samuel Beckett

The sun passes over filth and is not dirtied. Italian Proverb

As the snow melts the filth shows through. Italian Proverb

Priests, cousins and pigeons. The first two are not good to marry. The Last two, serve only to filth the house. Portuguese Proverb

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