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Recent Examples of filth Ultimately, as power slips away like a wet bar of soap, the filth that can no longer be cleansed ensures Richard’s satisfying demise. David John Chávez, Mercury News, 30 July 2025 There are shots of a flooded nursery, Mickey Mouse cribs rippling in filth. Ariel Saramandi, The Dial, 29 July 2025 This habitual house of filth can be found under Y & C Restaurant and, with this record, the owners should want inspection details hidden under a different name. David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 21 July 2025 One person reported seeing two rats feeding on filth in the area closest to houses on the center’s northern border. Mike Hendricks july 10, Kansas City Star, 10 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for filth
Recent Examples of Synonyms for filth
Noun
  • After more than an hour on the road, the team arrived at a cluster of trailers behind a long dirt path on a grower’s property in South Haven, tight quarters where farmworkers rest after long-hour shifts picking fruit under the Michigan sun.
    David Rodriguez Muñoz, Freep.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Sweep to get rid of any dirt or debris.
    Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Brain rot has become unavoidable, its grossness ubiquitous.
    Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Even from a young age, Ann seeks transcendence, and Fastvold conveys both the dark crowded muck of poverty and the young girl’s airy dreams of light and love.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Over the last 15 years, more than two-thirds of the waterway has been slowly brought back to life through concerted efforts to remove or cap toxic muck.
    Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The sour stench of the carcasses was a vulgarity almost too great to bear.
    Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Action rocks as Season 2 leans more into DCU absurdity and vulgarity.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Qatar denounces ‘cowardly’ Israeli strike targeting Hamas leaders Israel launched an aerial strike against senior Hamas leaders in Doha on Tuesday, in its first direct attack on Qatari soil, marking a significant escalation in regional tensions.
    Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • What Mill does is preserve food as a resource, keeping nutrients intact so they can be used to feed soil or farms.
    Chelsea Davis, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Others tried to flee into a sewage pond; agents used a boat to fish them out and prosecutors later alleged one man tried to flip the vessel.
    Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Additionally, there will be an in-ground stormwater sewage system throughout the community to handle runoff.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Since Missouri vanity plates have to follow the state obscenity law, a court would need to find that the state law violates the First Amendment.
    Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The suspect is also facing charges including interference with a professional sporting event, reckless endangerment, harassment and obscenity.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Meanwhile, the onset of the rainy season has exacerbated already deplorable conditions, transforming dust into thick sludge, flooding fragile shelters, and bringing swarms of malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The standard provided improved protection for modern gasoline engines, including requirements for Low-Speed Pre-Ignition (LSPI), timing chain wear, and better piston deposit and sludge control.
    Michael Harley, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025

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“Filth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/filth. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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