Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: filthy
IPA transcription: [f'ɪlθi]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: filthy, foul, nasty
    Meaning: disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter; "as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a room"
Usage examples
  • The filthy toad... .
  • It was, indeed, a filthy process in which I was engaged.
  • I've sworn to amend, and every day I've done the same filthy things.
  • Unshaven and filthy, he was reeling from three nights' sleepless work on the Military Revolutionary Committee.
  • They show at a glance those headlong, tumultuous times, when men and animals jostled in the filthy streets, and death might wait for one at every corner.
  • And the Rectangle from its windows, its saloon steps, its filthy sidewalk, gutter and roadway, paused, and with undisguised wonder stared at the two girls.
  • Huddled together in damp and filthy prisons, crawling with vermin, covered with sores and ulcers, brawling, blaspheming and fighting, the galley slaves made a picture suggestive only of Hell.
  • Men went in, fresh and vigorous; night and day and night and day they threw themselves into the terrible machine; and came out limp, blind with fatigue, hoarse and filthy, to fall on the floor and sleep....
  • I compassionated him and sometimes felt a wish to console him, but when I looked upon him, when I saw the filthy mass that moved and talked, my heart sickened and my feelings were altered to those of horror and hatred.
  • Many of these earnest Christians gave their very lives for the galley slaves; for fevers, plague and contagious diseases of every kind raged in the filthy convict prisons, and many priests and lay helpers died of the infection.