filth

Example Sentences

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It’s a matter of washing off the filth—with unnatural chemicals, at that—versus never picking up the filth in the first place.

From Slate • Feb. 13, 2026

"We're literally living in filth," said Rakotondrina on a tour permeated by the powerful stench of urine.

From Barron's • Oct. 17, 2025

She said her fellow housemates lived "in stink and filth".

From BBC • Jun. 17, 2025

Stinking of the filth he’d rolled in, he concluded that he was probably on the wrong path.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2025

But aside from the occasional bounty from Andrius, we had become bottom-feeders, living off filth and rot.

From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys