Synonyms for filthy
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : fil-thee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɪl θi |
Top 10 synonyms for filthy Other synonyms for the word filthy
- base
- bawdy
- begrimed
- black
- blackened
- blue
- coarse
- contemptible
- corrupt
- cruddy
- depraved
- despicable
- dirty-minded
- fecal
- feculent
- foul
- foul-mouthed
- gross
- impure
- lewd
- licentious
- loathsome
- low
- mean
- miry
- mucky
- offensive
- pornographic
- putrid
- raunchy
- repulsive
- revolting
- scatological
- scummy
- scurvy
- sleazy
- slimy
- slipshod
- sloppy
- slovenly
- smoky
- smutty
- soily
- sooty
- squalid
- suggestive
- unclean
- uncleanly
- unkempt
- unwashed
- verminous
- vicious
- vile
- yecchy
Définition of filthy
Origin :- late 12c., fulthe, "corrupt, sinful," from filth + -y (2). Meaning "physically unclean" is from late 14c. Meaning "morally dirty, obscene" is from 1530s.
- In early use often hardly more emphatic than the mod. dirty; it is now a violent expression of disgust, seldom employed in polite colloquial speech. [OED]
- Related: Filthiness.
- adj dirty, polluted
- adj vulgar, obscene
- His pockets are full of filthy paper on which he writes from time to time.
- Extract from : « Ballads of a Bohemian » by Robert W. Service
- By reason of filthy money no one can say to me: Do this, or do that.
- Extract from : « Ballads of a Bohemian » by Robert W. Service
- They are "safe, because they are too filthy to handle, and too noisome even to approach."
- Extract from : « The Story of the Malakand Field Force » by Sir Winston S. Churchill
- And it was Salvat who was there, now conquered and simply a filthy bundle.
- Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola
- Oh, lay me bleeding, but these are a filthy and most ungodly crew!
- Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- It was a filthy place and snow had drifted in through the openings in the roof and side.
- Extract from : « The Long Labrador Trail » by Dillon Wallace
- Nothing is too filthy to be used to stimulate the base sensuality of the public.
- Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel
- And now in a moment she was dropped into the filthy dust of city horrors.
- Extract from : « A Spirit in Prison » by Robert Hichens
- Was he going to revert to the filthy cooking of imaginary figures?
- Extract from : « His Masterpiece » by Emile Zola
- These filthy animals got fatter and fatter, then they jumped onto the mattress and disappeared.
- Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola
Antonyms for filthy
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