filth
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Old Filth himself is a retired judge looking back on life, with recollections of the British Empire in better days.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
In his 2019 book, “Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder,” the director tracks his bumpy path to Hollywood with chapters such as “Accidentally Commercial” and “Sliding Back Down.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2023
Your most recent HBO special was called "Good Clean Filth," and now you're touring across the world on Good Girl Tour.
From Salon • Mar. 12, 2023
“Somehow I became respectable,” he laments on the first page of his new tell-almost-all memoir, “Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder.”
From Seattle Times • May 27, 2019
Filth had laid seige to the Ayemenem House like a medieval army advancing on an enemy castle.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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Theodore Roosevelt on "The Man with the Muck Rake" (1906)
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