Filth

/fɪlθ/ · noun

Meaning

Dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles..

Definitions by Sense

1. Dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles.
2. Smut; that which sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution.
3. (derogatory, uncountable) A vile or disgusting person.
4. (US, agriculture, dated) Weeds growing on pasture land.
5. (UK, Ireland, derogatory, slang) The police.

Example Sentences

Before we start cooking we need to clean up the filth in this kitchen.

He spends all his time watching filth on pornographic websites.

Novv all theſe Precepts do not only tend to beget in us ſuch vertues and diſpoſitions, as are reaſonable and ſuitable to our nature, and every vvay for our temporal convenience and advantage; but ſuch, as do likevviſe exceedingly diſpoſe us to piety and religion, by purifying our ſouls from the droſs and filth of ſenſual delights.

I think you're scum, I think you're filth. And as far as Elaine's concerned you're to get her out of your filthy mind right now.

They were filth, utter filth. I mean, and this tops it. She even bought the video of her sister dying, or at least the sex act that killed her.

Grampa remembers when he had to cut filth with a scythe.

We were in the middle of stashing the money when the filth arrived.

Riding through the city on my bike all day/'Cause the filth took away my licence

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• filths
• the filth

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