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FILTHILY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does filthily mean?
• FILTHILY (adverb)
The adverb FILTHILY has 1 sense:
1. in a filthy unclean manner
Familiarity information: FILTHILY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a filthy unclean manner
Synonyms:
dirtily; filthily
Context example:
a dirtily dressed camel driver
Pertainym:
filthy (disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter)
Context examples
I waded through with some difficulty, and one of the footmen wiped me as clean as he could with his handkerchief, for I was filthily bemired; and my nurse confined me to my box, till we returned home; where the queen was soon informed of what had passed, and the footmen spread it about the court: so that all the mirth for some days was at my expense.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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