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How to use filthy in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, verb

Filthy means covered with filth; very dirty. Example: “The food wasn't much to write home about: it was filthy slop.”

Examples of filthy by meaning

adjectiveCovered with filth; very dirty.

  • The coaches were filthy outside and did not appear to have been painted or washed for years.1953 July, Allen Rowley, “First Impressions of American Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 492

adjectiveObscene or offensive.

  • Filthy smirking Pat Robertson has come in second in the Iowa Republican caucuses.1987, Michael Grumley, Final Diary

adjectiveVery unpleasant or disagreeable.

  • Oh, that filthy dream again.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London

adjectiveAngry; upset; severely annoyed.

  • My best mate saved me, and the teacher was filthy.1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 166

verbTo make very dirty; to saturate something with dirt.

  • In the years following World War Two, Americans cut down vast forests, built thousands of factories, assembled millions of atmospherically toxic automobiles, and filthied the water throughout North America.2007, Tom Bissell, Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia

verbTo cover in filth.

  • He shouldered his way inside, filthying his T-shirt on the charred wood.2009, Jeffery Deaver, Hell's Kitchen

More sentences with filthy

  • The food wasn't much to write home about: it was filthy slop.From the entry to write home about
  • You spend as though you were filthy rich, when you hardly make ends meet.From the entry as though
  • They could use a bit of spit and polish around here. The place is filthy.From the entry spit and polish
  • We had a hotel booking but the place was filthy and unstayable.From the entry unstayable
  • In discussing alternatives to the polar extremes, Professor Nguyen mentioned two poles of a filthy floor versus a sterile surgical site.From the entry pole
  • That filthy man stole my fluffing purse!From the entry fluffing
  • You ought to know your place, filthy commoner!From the entry know your place
  • His face was dirty, nay, filthy.From the entry nay
  • A tiny paw pokes out, an itty-bitty murder mitten tipped with filthy sharp claws.2025, Brittany Kelley, Relationship Goals, page 141. From the entry murder mitten
  • Doubtless it would include filthy rusalki and bagiennik, and lowly peasant magic.2021, P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn. From the entry bagiennik
  • An article is not obscene simply because it is repulsive or filthy.2016, Hugh Jones, Christopher Benson, “Defamation and Other Risks”, in Publishing Law, 5th edition, Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.…. From the entry obscene
  • Katherine Viner wants to appoints a "1 per cent correspondent" to hound the filthy rich.2015 February 24, Patrick Kidd, “Guardian Angels Declare”, in The Times, page 11. From the entry Grauniad
  • It's filthy; maybe I should wash or dryclean it before that.2013 January 21, Namita Gokhale, Priya: In Incredible Indyaa, Penguin UK, →ISBN. From the entry jhola
  • (Note: most 19th century American politicians did not call their friends filthy English atheists.2009 October 28, The Black Marvel [username], “Re: Charles David Conducts the Underground Railroad”, in soc.history.what-if (Usenet). From the entry trufax
  • Some Yahoos got filthy rich, but many more lost it all.2004, Chris Turner, Planet Simpson: how a cartoon masterpiece defined a generation. From the entry yahoo
  • She came over now, sweating and smiling amiably, to wipe the table with a filthy cloth.2003, Damon Galgut, chapter 4, in The Good Doctor, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 9 January 2004, →ISBN…. From the entry mama
  • He wore two sweaters, both moth chewn and filthy but warm.2001, Keith Douglass, Seal Team Seven 14: Death Blow. From the entry chew
  • "Jerry Springer encourages people to show off their filthiest laundry, to misbehave.1998 June 8, Barbara Lippert, “Punchin' Judy”, in New York, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12…. From the entry bup-bup-bup
  • He said: “What have you got that filthy doek on your head for?”1965, Doris Lessing, Landlocked, HarperPerennial, published 1995, page 227. From the entry doek
  • Everything about the steamers was filthy and neglected except the engines, which were in reasonably good order.1965, Julian Symons, “The Steamers Arrive: The Delay”, in England’s Pride: The Story of the Gordon Relief Expedition, Looe, Cornwall…. From the entry forehold
  • The view in all directions is superb, and the village is filthy.1940, Nicol Smith, Burma Road, Garden City, NY: Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, pages 136–137. From the entry Kochiu
  • Malone and his filthy Fleet Street crew may be all yelping our praises yet."1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry Fleet Street
  • "You want this key you filthy scumbag!2018, Jordan Kyree Lane, KRISHNA GHJI: The Assassin's Medallion: A War Without End. From the entry abydocomist
  • He no longer dangled from the wall, but lay on a pile of filthy blankets on the stone floor.2014 November 25, Cinda Williams Chima, The Seven Realms: The Complete Series: Collecting The Demon King, The Exiled Queen, The Gray Wolf…. From the entry scummer
  • Road transport was the future, the Underground was being 'managed for decline', and the system was filthier than the streets above.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page xiii, Preface. From the entry run-down
  • The barman is a professional, and pretends not to be shocked to see his backward and filthy visitor.2012, Aimery Thomas, Primae Noctis, page 313. From the entry outdweller
  • They’ll ignore their responsibilities, turn on their families, and resort to a life of crime to support this filthy habit..2009 September 15, Stacey McLachlan, “Secret Meat”, in D’Arcy Bresson, editor, The Lance, volume 82, number 6, Windsor, Ont.: University…. From the entry golden delicious
  • Not so smart for a young Nightwing-in-training—especially when he’s got one of those filthy hellspawns in his hands.”2003, Geoffrey Huntington [pseudonym; William J. Mann], “A Deadly Duel”, in Demon Witch (The Ravenscliff Series; II), ReganBooks, →ISBN…. From the entry hellspawn
  • His whiskey-laced breath told Misty that he’d been drinking, and his food-stained longjohn top and filthy breeches repulsed her.1995, Sonya Birmingham, Frost Flower, New York, N.Y.: Leisure Books, →ISBN, page 165. From the entry longjohn
  • Tell him, Byar, and bring him if you must arrest him and those filthy wretches who disgrace the Children.1992, Robert Jordan, “Chapter 31: Assurances”, in The Shadow Rising (The Wheel of Time; 4), London: Orbit Books, published 2021, →ISBN…. From the entry scrawny
  • Calling me every filthy name in the book."1972, Stuart Hunter Palmer, The Violent Society, →ISBN, page 46. From the entry cuss out
  • He was wearing his pretty blue Sunday smock, and it was so filthy in front that it was practically matted.1959, Sigrid Undset, “Thjodolf”, in Naomi Walfor, transl., Four Stories, Alfred A. Knopf; reprinted in Tiina Nunnally, transl., edited by…. From the entry underpant
  • Clif Clawson and he lived in a large room with flowered wall-paper, piles of filthy clothes, iron beds, and cuspidors.1925, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 5, in Arrowsmith, page 40. From the entry cuspidor
  • This unremitting insistence on his color, this continual shunting him into obscure and filthy ways, gradually gave Peter a loathly sensation.1922, T.S. Stribling, Birthright. From the entry loathly

Meaning of filthy

  1. adjective Covered with filth; very dirty.
  2. adjective Obscene or offensive.
  3. adjective Very unpleasant or disagreeable.

Full definition of filthy

Questions about filthy in a sentence

How do you use filthy in a sentence?
Filthy is used as an adjective and verb. For example: “The food wasn't much to write home about: it was filthy slop.”
What is a short sentence with filthy?
“Oh, that filthy dream again.”
What does filthy mean?
Filthy means covered with filth; very dirty.

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