filthy
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The road outside the school in Khedi Kalan village is dotted with shallow potholes filled with filthy water.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
No matter how filthy a tackle might be, Deschamps instructed his players to bounce back up and carry on in silence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
But instead they ramped it back up for one last cathartic blast to close, sending their faithful out onto Hollywood Boulevard, sweaty and filthy and fundamentally known.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 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
I tried not to watch Granda pile up the soil, digging as fast as he could, his shirt soaked, his face filthy.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
"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
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
Russell groaned and wiped off the black ash with an even filthier cloth.
From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 2018
The prosperous western neighborhoods boasted elegant shops, cafes and residences; proletarian eastern Paris was filthier and more crowded than ever.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2014
I stayed out of my stepfamily’s way as much as possible, and the longer I worked as a scullery maid, and the filthier I got, the less Hattie and Mum Olga tormented me.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
Yet Guadagnino can’t help but sand every coarse surface; even the filthiest walls here look carefully buffed to perfection.
From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2024
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
Restaurant: Impossible Chef Robert Irvine heads to the Jalisco Cafe in San Diego where he tackles one of the filthiest kitchens of his career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2022
He dealt with those who lived in the filthiest order and it was his aim to show them that virtue came from cleanliness, and he worked unceasingly that their surroundings might first be clean.
From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by James H. Stark
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