filthy
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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
Four years ago, Robert Brovdi was more comfortable in auction houses like Christie's than filthy trenches.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026
"It was filthy, dirty and it leaked like a sieve for many years," he said in a White House video about the plan.
From Barron's ● Apr. 25, 2026
She landed barefoot and filthy with smoke and soot.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
"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
This means the toilets have become even filthier.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 4, 2017
He was filthier than usual, with dirt encrusted on his face and ringing his scalp.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
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
“One of the filthiest pitches I’ve ever seen,” Callaway said.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2019
The city is also one of the filthiest in the East, as there are no means of drainage or sewerage, and garbage of every description lies in heaps in the open streets.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
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