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filthily

filthily adverb: in a filthy manner.

Adverb

filthily (comparative more filthily, superlative most filthily)

  1. in a filthy manner
    • […] I waded through with some difficulty, and one of the footmen wiped me as clean as he could with his handkerchief, for I was filthily bemired; and my nurse confined me to my box, till we returned home […]1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag)
    • I felt a peculiar shrinking from those pallid bodies. They were just the half-bleached colour of the worms and things one sees preserved in spirit in a zoological museum. And they were filthily cold to the touch.1895 May 29, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Chapter 6”, in The Time Machine: An Invention, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC

Forms of filthily

comparativemore filthily
superlativemost filthily

Origin of filthily

From filthy + -ly.

Questions about filthily

What does filthily mean?
Filthily means in a filthy manner.
What part of speech is filthily?
Filthily is an adverb.

Words near filthily in the dictionary

  1. filthiest
  2. filthified
  3. filthifies
  4. filthify
  5. filthifying
  6. filthily
  7. filthiness
  8. filthinesses
  9. filthless
  10. filthmonger
  11. filthmongers

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