How to Use filthy in a Sentence

filthy

adjective
  • She's in a filthy mood.
  • There’s a filthy joy in the air around him, and the new norm is that there are no norms.
    Kyle Smith, National Review, 9 Mar. 2022
  • There is a lot of crazy and filthy stuff posted out there on the web.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
  • The man says the bathrooms are filthy, medicine not given, lack of tests.
    Tiffany Ap, Quartz, 13 Apr. 2022
  • In one case, 600 men had to share two abysmally filthy kitchens.
    Ky Henderson, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The house was also filthy and there was no more than six ounces of baby food in the kitchen.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2022
  • The woman was discovered chained by the neck in a filthy shack, in footage filmed late last month.
    NBC News, 5 Feb. 2022
  • The latter is a warm-hearted sendup of morality and the filthy rich.
    Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Jan. 2023
  • These aren’t the filthy promises of one lover to another.
    Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 21 June 2023
  • The waste water after cleaning showed how filthy the rugs still were.
    Amy Schulman, Peoplemag, 14 Nov. 2022
  • The sidewalks were filthy, filled with homeless tents and a god-awful smell.
    Andy Kessler, WSJ, 5 June 2022
  • Foodies, celebrity chefs, the filthy rich—this is low-hanging fruit for a satirist.
    A.a. Dowd, Chron, 16 Nov. 2022
  • But her real charm lies in her white sneakers with filthy laces.
    Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Catch the strange tale of a filthy rich dog in Gunther's Millions when the series drops on Netflix on Feb. 1.
    Korin Miller, Women's Health, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Patients were given bedsteads and fresh bedding, in lieu of torn and filthy mats on the floor.
    New York Times, 11 Apr. 2022
  • The skinny, filthy man in the wheelchair looked nothing like her little boy.
    Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but your water bottle is filthy.
    Tiffany Hopkins, Bon Appétit, 16 Feb. 2023
  • They were all posed in the same direction, placed face down in filthy water and barefoot.
    Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 26 July 2023
  • But there are better and less gross ways to do that than walking around inside with your filthy shoes on.
    Mark Patrick Taylor, CBS News, 26 May 2023
  • Her classmates called her fat, ugly and damak — a Filipino term that means filthy.
    Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Guevara lay wounded and shackled on a filthy stone floor of a mud hut in the Bolivian town of La Higuera.
    Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Her home is often filthy, with dirty diapers and garbage strewn about.
    jsonline.com, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The clinic is over now, and the filthy but strangely comforting restroom where it was born is flattened to the ground.
    Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Barker moved between the gory and the atmospheric, the filthy and the fantastic.
    New York Times, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Even with so many people working from home with their filthy athleisure and their overnight oats, the day belongs to the working.
    Mark Healy, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2024
  • The woman wore filthy clothes, appeared malnourished and weighed about 70 pounds, the complaint said.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2024
  • His right hand rested on the filthy sidewalk, while his left arm was wrapped up inside his jersey.
    Fox News, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Oxo Bottle Brush Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but your water bottle is filthy.
    Tiffany Hopkins, Bon Appétit, 25 Mar. 2024
  • But though the universe is filthy with expander graphs, human beings have failed time and again to produce them by hand.
    Quanta Magazine, 2 June 2022
  • Every single character in the show — as well as the cast of hangers-on — was filthy, stinking rich.
    Vulture, 30 May 2023

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