FILTHY (filthier, filthiest)

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Irregular inflected forms: filthier    , filthiest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does filthy mean? 

• FILTHY (adjective)
  The adjective FILTHY has 3 senses:

1. disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter

2. vile; despicable

3. characterized by obscenity

  Familiarity information: FILTHY used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FILTHY (adjective)

Comparative: filthier   
Superlative: filthiest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter

Synonyms:

filthy; foul; nasty

Context example:

a nasty pigsty of a room

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:

Vile; despicable

Synonyms:

dirty; filthy; lousy

Context example:

a filthy traitor

Similar:

awful; nasty (offensive or even (of persons) malicious)

Derivation:

filthiness (moral corruption or pollution)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Characterized by obscenity

Synonyms:

cruddy; filthy; foul; nasty; smutty

Context example:

smutty jokes

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)

 Context examples 

He was a dreadful old man to look at, in a filthy flannel waistcoat, and smelling terribly of rum.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was, indeed, a filthy process in which I was engaged.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“Come in, come in!” said she; “is not this much better than the filthy pigsty we had?”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Then she tried a child's story, which she could easily have disposed of if she had not been mercenary enough to demand filthy lucre for it.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands,” remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Large and small, not less than a thousand of these filthy creatures lay in the hollow before us.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

See yonder, he added, pointing to a bombard which lay within the camp: there is what hath done scath to good bowmanship, with its filthy soot and foolish roaring mouth.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

And indeed I now apprehended that I must absolutely starve, if I did not get to some of my own species; for as to those filthy Yahoos, although there were few greater lovers of mankind at that time than myself, yet I confess I never saw any sensitive being so detestable on all accounts; and the more I came near them the more hateful they grew, while I stayed in that country.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

All these were blotted out by a grotesque and terrible nightmare brood—frowsy, shuffling creatures from the pavements of Whitechapel, gin-bloated hags of the stews, and all the vast hell's following of harpies, vile-mouthed and filthy, that under the guise of monstrous female form prey upon sailors, the scrapings of the ports, the scum and slime of the human pit.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)