filthy
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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
"It was filthy, dirty and it leaked like a sieve for many years," he said in a White House video.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
Cheesethief stepped forward, wiping imaginary tears from his face with the back of a filthy claw.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
"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
There was nothing lower she could do, nothing filthier.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
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
His finest moment — or at least his filthiest — came with the viral Sara Lee “S.N.L.” sketch he wrote with his friend Julio Torres.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 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
The filthiest place in Benares, which almost sickened me every time I came near it, is now a beautiful garden, with a fine town-house attached to it.
From Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 by James Kennedy
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