filth
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Soon they were being branded by the News of the World as "Britain's newest purveyors of filth" - a moniker Sullivan claimed "made my mother cry".
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
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
But as the nineteenth century went along and the link between filth and disease became more apparent, public health codes were strengthened and enforced.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
Vocabulary lists containing filth
Theodore Roosevelt on "The Man with the Muck Rake" (1906)
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