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单词 filth
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Definition of filth in English:

filth

noun fɪlθfɪlθ
mass noun
  • 1Disgusting dirt.

    污秽;污物

    stagnant pools of filth

    肮脏的死水池塘。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • For it was granted in our illustration of light that the rays of the sun sent down to earth from heaven are not defiled by touching all the mud and filth and garbage.
    • He was given a scented bath before sunrise to wash the filth from his body.
    • I used my knife, methodically cutting away the fur and dirt around the wound, washing away filth: clotted blood, mud, and grass with water from my canteen.
    • And I have never seen such filth and disgusting things anywhere.
    • She was brought up in filth and squalor that disgusted everyone who set foot in their home in her early years on the Bransholme estate and latterly the Orchard Park estate in Hull.
    • Open drains, piles of uncleared garbage, filth and pitiful shacks are everywhere.
    • She wondered if she would ever get clean of all the accumulated filth.
    • A moment later a piece of mud falling from his hair into his face prompted him to just lean forward and dunk his head under the water, a dark cloud of filth polluting the water around him.
    • Even the smell was different, filth and dirt replaced by fresh air.
    • I positioned my broom and began to sweep away the dirt and filth that had gathered since last time I had swept.
    • Litter, rubbish, filth and grime - eyesores like these are a common sight in Bolton.
    • I don't believe anyone ever cleans this area, and the accumulated filth creates an unbearable stench.
    • The familiar stench of filth, dirt, blood, and sweat filled his nose.
    • She climbed into the shower and washed the filth off her body.
    • Slowly she stood up, the vile filth clinging to her clothing.
    • Crud by definition is a coating of filth or refuse.
    • We stomp aboard, spreading more filth on the dripping bus.
    • The stinking filth on the streets was not even pleasing to crows, though.
    • In my village, Wilsden, it is like an assault course avoiding piles of disgusting filth when walking up the main street.
    • But he left me shivering almost naked lying in my own filth, half starved.
    Synonyms
    dirt, muck, grime, mud, mire, sludge, slime, ooze, foul matter
    excrement, excreta, dung, manure, ordure, sewage
    rubbish, refuse, garbage, trash, dross, scum
    pollution, contamination, defilement, decay, putrefaction, putrescence
    squalor, squalidness, sordidness, shabbiness, sleaziness, filthiness, uncleanness, foulness, nastiness
    informal crud, grot, gunge, grunge, yuck
    1. 1.1 Obscene and offensive language or printed material.
      猥亵的言词(或印刷品);粗话,脏话,下流话
      some calls were vitriolic, accusing us of publishing pornography and filth
      Example sentencesExamples
      • If you are not among the lovers of vulgarly vile funny filth, you may want to cut a wide swath around this release.
      • We live in a world soiled by the grossness and wickedness and filth of sin.
      • Unfortunately, as the Minister has stated, there has been a proliferation of that sort of smut and filth ever since the Internet became something most of us use.
      • How could Norman bring a tool of the devil into their household and corrupt his sock drawer with this filth?
      • I'm glad to have about eight seconds here to express my complete disgust at the degree to which filth and sleaze and vulgarity and every kind of offensive language is now dominant in our language.
      • So can you guarantee to protect our children from the flood of filth and pornography the internet will unleash on our living rooms?
      • ‘A floodtide of filth is engulfing our country in the form of newsstand obscenity,’ its narrator intoned.
      • I wish some kind soul would provide an online list of all companies using this filth.
      • Just goes to show that recipients of such filth should not open the material out of curiosity or to confirm the material.
      • A former policeman who led the fight against internet child porn warned today that the tide of filth in cyberspace is growing and could lead to an abuse ‘timebomb’.
      • Since the first one appeared in 1964, there's been a debate about whether it's filth, smut, porn, tasteful erotica or high art.
      • Not one voice of opposition to this racist filth is heard from a single character.
      • Can anyone doubt that the filth they spout will now carry more weight, that the flag-waving crowds are now more likely to vote MHP?
      • It underblocks, leaving children exposed to all sorts of filth; and it overblocks, denying adults access to material they have every right to view.
      • It contains a few rude bits which helped to get the book censored in 1922 for ‘unmitigated filth and obscenity’.
      • We have to demand that the BBC and other media stop giving these Nazis a platform to spout their filth.
      • National Public Radio and the National Endowment for the Arts still freely spread their toxic filth at taxpayer expense.
      • Only a few months ago, while doing an innocent search for cuddly fluffy woodland animals, they came upon this particular receptacle of online filth.
      • Many sadly shake their heads at the situations and circumstances around them, but do nothing to stop the onrushing tides of immoral filth and disease.
      • Naturally, this provoked a flood of filth and crude innuendo, which is hardly suitable material for a family site.
      Synonyms
      pornography, pornographic literature/films/videos, dirty books, smut, vice
      obscenity, indecency, corruption, lewdness, rudeness, vulgarity, coarseness, crudeness, grossness, vileness, nastiness, immorality
      informal porn, hard porn, soft porn, porno, raunchiness
    2. 1.2 Corrupt behaviour; decadence.
      腐败的行为;颓废;堕落
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Why has the world shown me nothing but wickedness, filth, and brutality till now?
      • Got back on Sunday evening and chucked a full on 5 year old temper tantrum at having to be back in this noisy, filth ridden corrupt town!
      • He absorbs the corruption, the filth, the sins of the flesh, the manager giving him orders now drunk at the bar with his arms around two giggling blondes.
      • Still, the purification rituals of the city involve a suspicion running through all economic classes that vile filth corrupts that which they are not.
      • However, observations of the High Street late at night indicate the noise, filth and anti-social behaviour increase exponentially with the hour.
      • We don't have the filth in our heads that she does.
      • We must stop peddling this filth at our kids immediately.
      • As a teenager, she would argue with her father about attacking the corruption and filth associated with politics.
      • Cities were also associated with poverty, filth, crime, class and labour conflict, and the general deterioration of American society.
      • But deep down she knew that the filth she felt inside would probably never entirely go away.
      • A marathon of self-obsession, self-pity, misery, filth, shame, loneliness, isolation, and a lot of embarrassing stuff about sex.
      • Grip the horn and tip it toward your greedy mouth, drinking of the filth, corruption and frothy, unintentional comedy contained within.
      • I'm going to die in this stinking filth, the victim of public education and malnutrition.
      • This game and all the filth in it must be purged from this universe!
    3. 1.3 Used as a term of abuse for a person or people one greatly despises.
      (骂人话)渣滓
      you and all the others like you are filth
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Indeed, but it also seemed intensely relaxed about the rich behaving like filth.
      • Didn't your mother ever teach you not to gossip about others, you disgusting piece of filth?
      • These terrorists are sub-human filth and must be captured and eliminated.
      • Now he strode wearily and dispassionately through the enemy filth, cutting down those that stood in his path and ignoring all others.
      • But The Sun says there's only one way to deal with this kind of evil terrorist filth.
      • Somehow, I managed to get to my feet, I was filthy now, only now could he call me, filth, and get a way with it.
    4. 1.4as plural noun the filthBritish derogatory, informal The police.
      〈英,非正式,贬〉警察;警方
      Example sentencesExamples
      • They obviously figured she looked crazed too, why else would she jump back like she'd just been burnt when she spotted the filth.
      • And potentially, if you've got a beard and dark skin, it may get you shopped to the filth.
      • Are rudimentary disguises sufficient to fool the filth?
      • Of course she will never appear in court and Dave beats her for being so stupid to get caught by the filth.
      • How does she know that only 7 per cent go to the filth?

Origin

Old English fȳlth 'rotting matter, rottenness', also 'corruption, obscenity', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vuilte, also to foul.

Rhymes

tilth

Definition of filth in US English:

filth

nounfɪlθfilTH
  • 1Disgusting dirt.

    污秽;污物

    stagnant pools of filth

    肮脏的死水池塘。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A moment later a piece of mud falling from his hair into his face prompted him to just lean forward and dunk his head under the water, a dark cloud of filth polluting the water around him.
    • I positioned my broom and began to sweep away the dirt and filth that had gathered since last time I had swept.
    • Crud by definition is a coating of filth or refuse.
    • Litter, rubbish, filth and grime - eyesores like these are a common sight in Bolton.
    • I used my knife, methodically cutting away the fur and dirt around the wound, washing away filth: clotted blood, mud, and grass with water from my canteen.
    • The familiar stench of filth, dirt, blood, and sweat filled his nose.
    • Even the smell was different, filth and dirt replaced by fresh air.
    • We stomp aboard, spreading more filth on the dripping bus.
    • She climbed into the shower and washed the filth off her body.
    • In my village, Wilsden, it is like an assault course avoiding piles of disgusting filth when walking up the main street.
    • And I have never seen such filth and disgusting things anywhere.
    • She was brought up in filth and squalor that disgusted everyone who set foot in their home in her early years on the Bransholme estate and latterly the Orchard Park estate in Hull.
    • Open drains, piles of uncleared garbage, filth and pitiful shacks are everywhere.
    • I don't believe anyone ever cleans this area, and the accumulated filth creates an unbearable stench.
    • But he left me shivering almost naked lying in my own filth, half starved.
    • For it was granted in our illustration of light that the rays of the sun sent down to earth from heaven are not defiled by touching all the mud and filth and garbage.
    • She wondered if she would ever get clean of all the accumulated filth.
    • Slowly she stood up, the vile filth clinging to her clothing.
    • The stinking filth on the streets was not even pleasing to crows, though.
    • He was given a scented bath before sunrise to wash the filth from his body.
    Synonyms
    dirt, muck, grime, mud, mire, sludge, slime, ooze, foul matter
    1. 1.1 Obscene and offensive language or printed material.
      猥亵的言词(或印刷品);粗话,脏话,下流话
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Many sadly shake their heads at the situations and circumstances around them, but do nothing to stop the onrushing tides of immoral filth and disease.
      • So can you guarantee to protect our children from the flood of filth and pornography the internet will unleash on our living rooms?
      • National Public Radio and the National Endowment for the Arts still freely spread their toxic filth at taxpayer expense.
      • A former policeman who led the fight against internet child porn warned today that the tide of filth in cyberspace is growing and could lead to an abuse ‘timebomb’.
      • Only a few months ago, while doing an innocent search for cuddly fluffy woodland animals, they came upon this particular receptacle of online filth.
      • Can anyone doubt that the filth they spout will now carry more weight, that the flag-waving crowds are now more likely to vote MHP?
      • Since the first one appeared in 1964, there's been a debate about whether it's filth, smut, porn, tasteful erotica or high art.
      • Not one voice of opposition to this racist filth is heard from a single character.
      • We have to demand that the BBC and other media stop giving these Nazis a platform to spout their filth.
      • Unfortunately, as the Minister has stated, there has been a proliferation of that sort of smut and filth ever since the Internet became something most of us use.
      • I wish some kind soul would provide an online list of all companies using this filth.
      • Just goes to show that recipients of such filth should not open the material out of curiosity or to confirm the material.
      • I'm glad to have about eight seconds here to express my complete disgust at the degree to which filth and sleaze and vulgarity and every kind of offensive language is now dominant in our language.
      • ‘A floodtide of filth is engulfing our country in the form of newsstand obscenity,’ its narrator intoned.
      • If you are not among the lovers of vulgarly vile funny filth, you may want to cut a wide swath around this release.
      • How could Norman bring a tool of the devil into their household and corrupt his sock drawer with this filth?
      • We live in a world soiled by the grossness and wickedness and filth of sin.
      • It contains a few rude bits which helped to get the book censored in 1922 for ‘unmitigated filth and obscenity’.
      • It underblocks, leaving children exposed to all sorts of filth; and it overblocks, denying adults access to material they have every right to view.
      • Naturally, this provoked a flood of filth and crude innuendo, which is hardly suitable material for a family site.
      Synonyms
      pornography, pornographic films, pornographic literature, pornographic videos, dirty books, smut, vice
    2. 1.2 Corrupt behavior; decadence.
      腐败的行为;颓废;堕落
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Grip the horn and tip it toward your greedy mouth, drinking of the filth, corruption and frothy, unintentional comedy contained within.
      • He absorbs the corruption, the filth, the sins of the flesh, the manager giving him orders now drunk at the bar with his arms around two giggling blondes.
      • This game and all the filth in it must be purged from this universe!
      • We must stop peddling this filth at our kids immediately.
      • Still, the purification rituals of the city involve a suspicion running through all economic classes that vile filth corrupts that which they are not.
      • However, observations of the High Street late at night indicate the noise, filth and anti-social behaviour increase exponentially with the hour.
      • As a teenager, she would argue with her father about attacking the corruption and filth associated with politics.
      • But deep down she knew that the filth she felt inside would probably never entirely go away.
      • Got back on Sunday evening and chucked a full on 5 year old temper tantrum at having to be back in this noisy, filth ridden corrupt town!
      • A marathon of self-obsession, self-pity, misery, filth, shame, loneliness, isolation, and a lot of embarrassing stuff about sex.
      • Why has the world shown me nothing but wickedness, filth, and brutality till now?
      • I'm going to die in this stinking filth, the victim of public education and malnutrition.
      • Cities were also associated with poverty, filth, crime, class and labour conflict, and the general deterioration of American society.
      • We don't have the filth in our heads that she does.
    3. 1.3 Used as a term of abuse for a person or people one greatly despises.
      (骂人话)渣滓
      I can’t believe she married that filth
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But The Sun says there's only one way to deal with this kind of evil terrorist filth.
      • Somehow, I managed to get to my feet, I was filthy now, only now could he call me, filth, and get a way with it.
      • These terrorists are sub-human filth and must be captured and eliminated.
      • Indeed, but it also seemed intensely relaxed about the rich behaving like filth.
      • Didn't your mother ever teach you not to gossip about others, you disgusting piece of filth?
      • Now he strode wearily and dispassionately through the enemy filth, cutting down those that stood in his path and ignoring all others.
    4. 1.4as plural noun the filthBritish derogatory, informal The police.
      〈英,非正式,贬〉警察;警方
      Example sentencesExamples
      • And potentially, if you've got a beard and dark skin, it may get you shopped to the filth.
      • How does she know that only 7 per cent go to the filth?
      • Are rudimentary disguises sufficient to fool the filth?
      • Of course she will never appear in court and Dave beats her for being so stupid to get caught by the filth.
      • They obviously figured she looked crazed too, why else would she jump back like she'd just been burnt when she spotted the filth.

Origin

Old English fȳlth ‘rotting matter, rottenness’, also ‘corruption, obscenity’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vuilte, also to foul.

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