filthy
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One Berlin resident fed up with filthy streets has taken matters into her own hands.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
Politics may be “a filthy business,” as Agrippa observes, but in the hands of Mr. Harris, it is a drama of endless interest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Outside the Lineage warehouse Thursday morning, the smell of heavy smoke was already being replaced with that of spoiling food and filthy water.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 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
The buildings are flat and ugly, and the pens, crammed with panicked, lowing cattle and filthy, snuffing pigs, butt right up against the tracks.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
"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
Lanthimos earned a nomination five years ago for his last movie, the spiky period farce “The Favourite,” and “Poor Things” is funnier, filthier and even more inventive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2024
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
It’s filthier than your English teacher let on.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2013
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
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 fridge is the filthiest place in your kitchen.
From BBC ● May 12, 2017
It is more than curious to sit in these rooms, in the filthiest spot in London, and listen to Moszkowsky, Tchaikowsky, and Sibelius, played by a factory girl.
From Modern Essays by Harry Morgan Ayres
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