filthy
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"It's full of cockroaches, rats. It's disgusting in there, filthy."
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 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
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
Our noses told us, first, that the place was filthy: somewhere plumbing had backed up, the bedding was soiled and rancid.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
"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
Yorgos Lanthimos earned a nomination five years ago for his last movie, the spiky period farce “The Favourite,” and his latest, “Poor Things,” is funnier, filthier and even more inventive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2023
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
This means the toilets have become even filthier.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 4, 2017
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
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
It used to be notorious as one of the filthiest waterways in America, a poster child for urban decline and environmental ruin.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2020
People didn’t know Martha was funny — much less that she could go toe-to-toe with some of the filthiest comedians.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 14, 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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