filth
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Recorded largely in the steamy, sweltering basement of Richards’ rented French villa, Nellecôte, “Exile” reeks of filth, decadence and decay.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Yehia Hassan is on the verge of tears as he surveys the filth and broken furniture strewn across the front room of his beloved Luton home.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
Fourteen, if you count Harry Brook's wrong-footed part-time filth.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 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
But what the myths show is how high they had risen above the ancient filth and fierceness by the time we have any knowledge of them.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
Vocabulary lists containing filth
Theodore Roosevelt on "The Man with the Muck Rake" (1906)
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