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FILTHY
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Irregular inflected forms: filthier , filthiest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter
Example:
a nasty pigsty of a room
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
dirty; soiled; unclean (soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime)
Derivation:
filth (a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse)
filth (the state of being covered with unclean things)
filthiness (a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Characterized by obscenity
Example:
smutty jokes
Synonyms:
cruddy; filthy; foul; nasty; smutty
Classified under:
Similar:
dirty ((of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency)
Derivation:
filth (an offensive or indecent word or phrase)
filthiness (moral corruption or pollution)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Vile; despicable
Example:
a filthy traitor
Synonyms:
dirty; filthy; lousy
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
awful; nasty (offensive or even (of persons) malicious)
Derivation:
filthiness (moral corruption or pollution)
Context examples:
From a flowery arch at the bottom of my garden I gazed over the sea—bluer than the sky: the old world was beyond; clear prospects opened thus:—'Go,' said Hope, 'and live again in Europe: there it is not known what a sullied name you bear, nor what a filthy burden is bound to you.'
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I followed him in, and I remember observing the contrast the neat, bright doctor, with his powder as white as snow and his bright, black eyes and pleasant manners, made with the coltish country folk, and above all, with that filthy, heavy, bleared scarecrow of a pirate of ours, sitting, far gone in rum, with his arms on the table.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Malone and his filthy Fleet Street crew may be all yelping our praises yet.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
But I could have easily vindicated humankind from the imputation of singularity upon the last article, if there had been any swine in that country (as unluckily for me there were not), which, although it may be a sweeter quadruped than a Yahoo, cannot, I humbly conceive, in justice, pretend to more cleanliness; and so his honour himself must have owned, if he had seen their filthy way of feeding, and their custom of wallowing and sleeping in the mud.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
It has been touch and go for our lives, said Lord John, gravely, and I could not think of a more rotten sort of death than to be outed by such filthy vermin.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A flash of lightning illuminated the object, and discovered its shape plainly to me; its gigantic stature, and the deformity of its aspect more hideous than belongs to humanity, instantly informed me that it was the wretch, the filthy dæmon, to whom I had given life.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
I was almost choked with the filthy stuff the monkey had crammed down my throat: but my dear little nurse picked it out of my mouth with a small needle, and then I fell a-vomiting, which gave me great relief.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The filthy beasts fingered me all over, and I feel as if I should never be clean again.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In a solitary chamber, or rather cell, at the top of the house, and separated from all the other apartments by a gallery and staircase, I kept my workshop of filthy creation; my eyeballs were starting from their sockets in attending to the details of my employment.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
