filthier; filthiest
1
: covered with, containing, or characterized by filth
filthy streets
filthy dishes
1
: in a filthy manner
filthy dirty
2
: very, exceedingly
filthy rich
Synonyms
Adjective
- bawdy
- blue
- coarse
- crude
- dirty
- foul
- gross
- gutter
- impure
- indecent
- lascivious
- lewd
- locker-room
- nasty
- obscene
- pornographic
- porny
- profane
- raunchy
- ribald
- smutty
- stag
- trashy
- unprintable
- vulgar
- wanton
- X-rated
Adverb
- achingly
- almighty
- archly
- awful
- awfully
- badly
- beastly
- blisteringly
- bone
- colossally
- corking
- cracking
- damn
- damned
- dang
- deadly
- desperately
- eminently
- enormously
- especially
- ever
- exceedingly
- exceeding
- extra
- extremely
- fabulously
- fantastically
- far
- fiercely
- frightfully
- full
- greatly
- heavily
- highly
- hugely
- immensely
- incredibly
- intensely
- jolly
- majorly
- mightily
- mighty
- monstrous [chiefly dialect]
- mortally
- most
- much
- particularly
- passing
- rattling
- real
- really
- right
- roaring
- roaringly
- seriously
- severely
- so
- sore
- sorely
- spanking
- specially
- stinking
- such
- super
- supremely
- surpassingly
- terribly
- that
- thumping
- too
- unco
- uncommonly
- vastly
- very
- vitally
- way
- whacking
- wicked
- wildly
Examples of filthy in a Sentence
Adjective
She's in a filthy mood.
you cannot use such filthy language on the public airwaves
Adverb
the invention made him filthy rich
Recent Examples on the Web
Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2024
Officers responding to a medical call involving McClure found a filthy home that was unsafe for children, police said in affidavits at the time.
—Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Apr. 2024
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Adjective
Even if it’s powered with a filthy diesel generator — that’s a hypothetical — one house isn’t going to bring the global climate crashing down.
—Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2024
Officers responding to a medical call involving McClure found a filthy home that was unsafe for children, police said in affidavits at the time.
—Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Apr. 2024
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“Filthy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/filthy. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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