How to Use filthy in a Sentence
filthy
adjective- She's in a filthy mood.
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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 -
Ellroy takes history down to the sewer and rolls around with it until everything is filthy.
— New York Times, 25 Jan. 2024
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