Synonyms:
obscenity, smut, vulgarism, filth, dirty_word
Meaning: an offensive or indecent word or phrase
Synonyms:
filth, filthiness, foulness, nastiness
Meaning: a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse
Synonyms:
dirt, filth, grime, soil, stain, grease, grunge
Meaning: the state of being covered with unclean things
Synonyms:
filth, crud, skank
Meaning: any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant
Usage examples
You have disseminated filth and stifling exhalations by your deeds.
Vermin revel in filth, and their extirpation depends mainly on cleanliness.
Horrible filth festered in the dammed-up gutters. The whole atmosphere teemed with desolation.
Men talk of their filth and their poverty: but commend me to sterling honesty, though clad in rags, as the poet saith.
"Can that creature who has still preserved the purity of her spirit be consciously drawn at last into that sink of filth and iniquity?
Injustice and filth cast they at the lonesome one: but, my brother, if thou wouldst be a star, thou must shine for them none the less on that account!
They were brought in with their uniforms covered with filth and blood, and were laid in long rows on the floors of the hospital where few cots were to be found.
A water system brings pure water to almost every household and a great sewer system takes away the filth. The Manila Hotel is worth a million and a park or square on the water front covers hundreds of acres of ground.
It may well be thought that her heart sank when she saw the enormity of the task that lay before her, for she had been sent to bring order from chaos, plenty from want, comfort from torture and cleanliness from wholesale filth.