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filthy
Filthy means very, very dirty.- Look at Joey. He's covered in mud. He's absolutely filthy.
With adverbs
- really filthy
- absolutely filthy
With nouns
- filthy clothes, filthy children
(= very, very dirty) - a filthy day, filthy weather
(= the weather is very, very bad, with lots of rain and wind - informal) - filthy language, a filthy book/magazine, a filthy
mind
(= rude/pornographic)
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- He's filthy rich.
(= very, very rich) - It's filthy dirty.
(= very, very dirty)
Check out the noun
Look at the filth in this room. It will take
a week to clean it.
(= thick, horrible dirt)
I looked at that article in the magazine. It's pure
filth!
(= offensively pornographic)
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