filthy
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Politics may be “a filthy business,” as Agrippa observes, but in the hands of Mr. Harris, it is a drama of endless interest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
All of Slattery’s lines are filthy or pathetic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Only a few days after the pool was refilled, though, it reverted what it always is: a filthy slime pit that nevertheless does an adequate job of its primary objective: reflecting.
From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2026
His fine performance against a physical Sunderland side on a filthy night in the north east demonstrated what he can do and how he can make Liverpool a better side.
From BBC ● May 26, 2026
“Ha, what a blow it would be to that feller Cluny and his filthy band of robbers.”
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
"The state of 'neither war nor peace' is far filthier than war itself," 39-year-old Tehran resident Shahrzad told AFP.
From Barron's ● May 23, 2026
In fact, such a thing had been in the works since the 1950s, but instead of hurrying to get them assembly-line ready as L.A. was sickening with smog, Detroit just made bigger, filthier cars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
That sponge, I reasoned, had to be way filthier than whatever Key Food filth had been lingering on the Coke I was about to bring to my lips.
From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2023
This means the toilets have become even filthier.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 4, 2017
The water was filthier than she could have imagined.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
In a school playground squeezed between two main roads, children play tag in some of Sheffield's filthiest air.
From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2023
We celebrated everything we could, bouncing from fancy restaurant to the filthiest dive bars we could find every week.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2023
He was just one of the filthiest comics ever, but it was done in such a genius way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2022
It used to be notorious as one of the filthiest waterways in America, a poster child for urban decline and environmental ruin.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2020
Perhaps--without care--the mouth is the filthiest cavity of the body.
From Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America
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