Filthy

Definition: Filthy

Filthy

Adjective

1. Disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter; "as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a room".

2. Vile; despicable; "a dirty (or lousy) trick"; "a filthy traitor".

3. (informal) thoroughly unpleasant; "filthy (or foul or nasty or vile) weather we're having".

4. Characterized by obscenity; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul language"; "smutty jokes".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "filthy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Filthy \Filth"y\, adjective. [Comparative Filthier; superlative Filthiest.]. (references)

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Filthy

Acquisition

Gain, thrift; money-making, money grubbing; lucre, filthy lucre, pelf; loaves and fishes, the main chance; emolument; (remuneration).

Uncleanness

Adjective: dirty, filthy, grimy; unclean, impure; soiled; Verb: not to be handled with kid gloves; dusty, snuffy, smutty, sooty, smoky; thick, turbid, dreggy; slimy; mussy.

Wealth

Pelf, Mammon, lucre, filthy lucre; loaves and fishes.

Made of money; rich as Croesus, filthy rich, rich as a Jew; rolling in riches, rolling in wealth.

Crosswords: Filthy

Did I mention that my father's filthy rich and I'll be working for free (A Time to Kill; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

I usually hate killing an unarmed man. Cold-blooded murder is a filthy business (The World Is Not Enough; writing credit: Neal Purvis; Robert Wade)

Yeah, but do you consider a dog to be a filthy animal (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary)

Where is the filthy animal (Little House on the Prairie; writing credit: Arthur Heinemann; John Hawkins)

Gosh, drink is sure a filthy thing, isn't it (Batman; writing credit: Bob Kane; Lorenzo Semple Jr.)

The Filthy Five (1968)

Filthy (2003)

This Filthy Earth (2001)

Filthy 4's Volume 22 (2000)

Tara Patrick aka Filthy Whore (2000)

Dirty Filthy Rock N Roll (performing artist: Painters & Dockers)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Dirty Filthy Book: The Writings of Charles Knowlton and Annie Besant on Reproductive Physiology and Birth Control and an Account of the Bradlaugh (reference)

• Filthy (reference)

• Filthy Death the Leering Clown (reference)

• Filthy English (reference)

• Filthy Rich (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Filthy Guy (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich (reference)

• South Filthy (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

It ain't th' filthy looker I'm doin' it for, George, it's the po'try o' th' thing. Credit: Library of Congress.

Daughter and son of agricultural day laborer living near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma. The furnishings of this shack were meager and broken and filthy. Muskogee County. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The den into which his eyes were at that moment directed, was abject, filthy, fetid, infectious, gloomy, unclean

The last sins oozed forth, sluggish, filthy.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Children

Iran

Film clips showed children tied or chained to their beds, in filthy conditions, and without appropriate care. (references)

Human Rights

Paraguay

According to Amnesty International, the cells were overcrowded, overheated, and filthy, with few toilet or washing facilities. (references)

Venezuela

Because reform institutions are filled to capacity, hundreds of children accused of infractions are confined in juvenile detention centers where they are crowded into small, filthy cells, fed only once a day, and forced to sleep on bare concrete floors. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "filthy": filthy beggar ♦ filthy lucre ♦ filthy rich man ♦ filthy story ♦ filthy swine ♦ filthy trick ♦ filthy weather ♦ get filthy. Additional references.

Beginning with "filthy": filthy-earth, filthy-gleeful, filthy-looking, filthy-minded, filthy-sounding, filthy-tasting.

Ending with "filthy": fil-filthy, pig-filthy, road-filthy, sex-mad-filthy.

Afrikaans

vuil (dirty, nasty, soiled, unclean). (various references)

Albanian

papastër (dirty, nasty, soiled, unclean), lapërdhar (foul-mouthed man, lewd, libidinous), i pistë (bawdy, dingy, dirty, foul, frowsty, frowsy, frowzy, grubby, miry, sordid, squalid, waste), i ndyrë (abject, atrocious, bloody, contaminated, cotton-picking, crappy, dirty, foul, hoggish, horrid, lousy, low, low down, mangy, muddy, nasty, piggish, puddly, salacious, shut in, sordid, squalid, stained, stinking, vile, villainous), i fëlliqur (contaminated, dirt, dirty, disgraceful, grimy, lewd, lousy, mean, mourning, muddy, sludgy, squalid). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فاحش (bawdy, dirty, obscene, ribald, shameless, vulgar), ‏قذر (augean, beastly, contaminated, crummy, defiled, dingy, dirt, dirty, disreputable, dungy, foul, ghoulish, grimy, grubby, impure, lousy, mean, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, pig, piggish, polluted, rubbishy, sinful, slattern, slatternly, slob, sloppy, slovenly, smutty, soil, sordid, squalid, unclean, uncleanly, untidy, verminous, vile), ‏وسخ (bedraggle, befoul, begrime, defiled, dirty, foul, grime, grimy, grubbiness, litter, mess up, offset, ordure, scum, slattern, smut, soil, soot, sordid, stain, tarnish), ‏بذيء (dirty, improper, impure, indecent, nasty, naughty, ribald, scurrilous, shameless, smutty, vulgar). (various references)

Bulgarian 

развратен (abandoned, debauched, dissolute, fast, goatish, immoral, impure, lax, lecherous, lewd, lickerish, perverted, profligate, rakish, reprobate, scarlet, sporty), циничен (cynical, indecent, lubricous, naughty, scurrilous, smutty), кирлив (dirty, grimy), гаден (abominable, creepy, loathsome, nameless, nasty, nauseous, noisome, obscene, revolting, scarlet, sickly, slimy, sordid, stinking, unsavory, unsavoury, unwholesome, vile, villainous, yukky), мръсен (bawdy, currish, dingy, dirt, dirty, foul, frowzy, greasy, grimy, hoggish, impure, messy, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, piggish, raunchy, ruddy, salacious, sleazy, sordid, squalid, unclean, unwashed, vile), порнографски (libidinous, obscene, pornographic, salacious, sexy). (various references)

Catalan

brut (dirty, nasty, soiled, unclean). (various references)

Chinese 

骯�' (dirty), 骯 (dirty), 臟 (dirty, viscera), 肮 , 污穢 (nasty, sordid), 污浊, 不干不淨 (unclean). (various references)

Czech

špinavý (black, dirty, foul, grimy, grotty, grubby, impure, messy, murky, nasty, seamy, slovenly, smutty, sordid, squalid, unclean). (various references)

Danish

snavset (dirty, nasty, soiled, unclean). (various references)

Dutch

vuil (clippings, cuttings, debris, dirt, dirty, filth, foul, nasty, parings, refuse, rubbish, rubble, soiled, unclean, waste, windfall), vies (dirty, nasty, soiled, unclean), smerig (dirty, foul, nasty, soiled, unclean), onrein (dirty, nasty, soiled, unclean), morsig (dirty, nasty, soiled, unclean). (various references)

Esperanto

malpura (dirty, nasty, soiled, unclean). (various references)

Faeroese

skitin (dirty, foul, nasty, soiled, unclean). (various references)

Finnish

saastainen (foul, impure, unclean), ruokoton (improper, obscene, untidy), likainen (dirty, impure, soiled, unclean). (various references)

French

sale, grossier, dégoûtant, crasseux, cochon. (various references)

Frisian

fiis (dirty, nasty, soiled, unclean). (various references)

German

schmutzige (impurely, smuttily, squalidly). (various references)

Greek 

κοπρώδησ, βρώμικοσ (dirty, grubby, mucky, scruffy, scummy, smudgy), βρώμικος (dirty, grimy, squalid), βρωμερόσ (fetid, foul, nasty, scummy, squalid, stench), ακάθαρτοσ (foul, grubby, impure, slaggy, slimy, slob, sloppy, unclean, verminous), ακάθαρτος (dirty). (various references)

Hawaiian

papastër (dirty, nasty, soiled, unclean). (various references)

Hebrew 

מזו�"ם (contaminated, dirty, infected, nasty, polluted, septic, soiled), מטו� ף (dungy, grubby, mucky, nasty, slimy, slob, sloppy, soiled, sordid, squalid), מסואב (contaminated, dirty, polluted, soiled), �"לוח (befouling, dirty, foul, muddy, polluted, pollution, turbid). (various references)

Hungarian

szennyes (dirty, drossy, impure, laundry, messy, scuzzy, turbid, wash), piszkos (crappy, dingy, dirty, frouzy, greasy, grubby, messy, mucky, nasty, piggish, pigsty, pokey, poky, scuz, scuzz, scuzzy, shabby, slatternly, sloppy, smeary, smudgy, smutty, snotty, soiled, sordid, spotty, unclean, untidy), mocskos (begrimed, drossy, foulmouthed, grimy, messy, ribald, scurrilous, scuzzy, sleazo, sleazy, snuffy, sordid, spotty, squalid, stinky). (various references)

Indonesian

comot (dirty, grimy, nab, seize, snatch off). (various references)

Irish

salach (dirty, soiled, unclean). (various references)

Italian

sporco (dingy, dirty, foul, grubby, mucky, nasty, scruff, smutty, soiled). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

褻 , 薄汚い (dirty, drab), 汚い　 (dirty, unclean), 汚い (dirty, unclean), 汚らわしい　 (unfair), 汚らわしい (unfair), 不�" (dirty, impure, unclean). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きたない (dirty, unclean), うすぎたない (dirty, drab), ふけつ (dirty, impure, unclean), せつ (acute, ardent, eager, earnest, keen, kind, node, occasion, section, temple, theory, time), けがらわしい (unfair). (various references)

Korean 

불결한 (impure, unclean). (various references)

Manx

sollagh (dirty, grimy, grotty, grubby, sordid, unclean), sallagh (dingy, foul, grubby, impure, nasty, piggish, squalid), feohoil (abominable), feohdagh (abhorrent, abominable, execrable, hateful, nauseous), eajee (atrocious, ghastly, monstrous, odious), broigh (dirty, nasty, soiled, unclean). (various references)

Norwegian

skitten (dirty, foul, grimy, grubby, nasty, soiled, unclean). (various references)

Papiamen

fis (dirty, nasty, soiled, unclean), sushi (dirty, nasty, soiled, unclean). (various references)

Pig Latin

ilthyfay.(various references)

Portuguese

sujo (boarish, cloudy, crummy, dingy, dirty, ebon, feculent, foul, frowzy, greasy, grimy, grouty, grubby, lousy, messy, miry, mucky, nasty, obscene, piggish, scurrilous, sloven, slovenly, smudgy, smutty, soiled, splotchy, squalid, stained, swinish, unclean, untidy, unwashed). (various references)

Romanian

urât (abominable, bad, badly, boredom, dirty, ennui, foul, haggish, hateful, hideous, ill-featured, little, low, megrim, naughty, opprobrious, sour, squalid, tedium, ugly, unbecoming, unfairly, unsightly, vicious, villainous, wicked), spurcat (base, dirty, foul, foul-mouthed, soiled, vile), scârnav (disgusting, foul, grubby, smutty, vile), porcos (hoggish), obscen (bawdy, dirty, foul, foul-mouthed, indelicate, lewd, lickerish, nasty, obscene, obscenely, ribald, scurrilous, smutty), murdar (base, basely, bawdy, dingy, dirty, dungy, foul, foully, frowzy, greasy, grimy, grubby, impure, mangy, messy, nasty, piggish, piggy, poky, scurrilous, seedy, shabby, slimy, slovenly, smeary, smutty, soppy, sordid, sordidly, squalid, Tarry, thick, unclean, untidy), jegos (dirty, soiled), imund. (various references)

Russian 

грязный (crummy, dirty, dungy, foul, frowsy, frowzy, grimy, lousy, mangy, messy, miry, mourning, mucky, muddy, puddly, scruffy, slimy, sloppy, sludgy, slushy, smeary, smudgy, sordid, squalid, unclean, vicious). (various references)

Scottish

salach (dirty, foul, nasty, soiled, unclean). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prljav (dingy, dirty, drossy, feculent, foul, grimy, impure, muck, mucky, scurvy, sordid, squalid, unclean), pornografski (pornographic, smutty), pogan (sordid). (various references)

Spanish

sucio (crummy, dingy, dirty, feculent, foul, foully, grubby, impure, low, lower, nasty, soiled, unclean, unfairly, unwashed). (various references)

Sranan

fisti (dirty, nasty, soiled, unclean), morsu (dirty, nasty, soiled, unclean), doti (dirty, earth, fertilizer, land, manure, nasty, soil, soiled, unclean). (various references)

Swedish

smutsig (crummy, dingy, dirty, foul, grimy, grubby, mucky, nasty, soiled, sordid, squalid, unclean), snuskig (dirty, foul, grubby, nasty, smutty, swinish). (various references)

Tagalog

marumí (dirty, nasty, soiled, unclean). (various references)

Turkish

pis (augean, black, dingy, dirty, dungy, effing, foul, frowzy, goatish, grimy, grubby, impure, mangy, messy, miasmal, miasmatic, miry, mucky, nasty, obnoxious, obscene, offensive, scruffy, scummy, slimy, sordid, squalid, unclean, uncleanly), müthiş (almighty, appalling, awful, bang up, beastly, colossal, deadly, devastating, devilish, dire, direful, fabulous, fearful, formidable, frightful, gee-whiz, helluva, prodigious, ripping, smashing, splendid, splendiferous, stunning, stupendous, superb, swell, tearing, terrible, terrific, thundering, unco, wild), müstehcen (bawdy, blue, dirty, gross, hard core, kinky, loathsome, nasty, obscene, off color, off colour, pornographic, racy, raw, ribald, ripe, risky, risque, rough, salacious, shocking, smutty, suggestive, unprintable), kirli (bedraggled, dingy, dirty, draggled, grimy, grubby, impure, smudgy, soiled, spotted, squalid, unclean, venose, venous), kírlí (dirty, nasty, soiled, unclean), iğrenç (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, cloying, crying, damn, damned, detestable, dirty, disgusting, distasteful, dread, dreadfull, execrable, foul, frightful, ghoulish, god-awful, grievous, hatable, hateable, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, infernal, loathsome, lousy, mangy, mawkish, nasty, nauseous, noisome, obnoxious, odious, offensive, putrid, rancid, rank, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, scummy, shocking, sick, sickening, sickly, slimy, squirmy, stinking, ugly, vile, villainous, yuck), aşırı (acute, beastly, beyond, breakneck, camp, confoundedly, cruelly, crusted, damned, dead, deep, desperate, desperately, devilish, disproportionate, every other day, exaggerated, exceeding, excessive, excessively, exorbitant, exquisite, extortionate, extravagant, extreme, extremely, fancy, ferocious, fond, fulsome, hard, heavy, hell, hell of, high, horrendous, horrific, hyper-, immoderate, inordinate, intense, intensive, like hell, like sin, outrageous, over, overweening, precious, shocking, splitting, steep, super, terribly, thick, ultra, unbounded, unco, unconscionable, undue, unmeasured, unreasonable, violent), açık saçık (bawdy, blue, dirty, disorderly, feelthy, foul, girlie, hard core, immodest, immodestly dressed, improper, indecent, lewd, obscene, off color, off colour, pornographic, racy, raw, ripe, risky, risque, rough, salacious, salty, scabrous, shocking, smutty, spicy). (various references)

Turkmen 

kirli (dirty, muddy). (various references)

Ukrainian

розбещений (abandoned, bad, corrupt, debauched, degenerate, depraved, licentious, miscreant, spoilt, wanton, wild), огидний (abhorrent, abject, abominable, accursed, accurst, antipathetic, antipathetical, atrocious, beastly, bilious, brackish, brutal, carrion, damnable, damned, detestable, disgusting, dreadful, evil, execrable, ghoulish, grim, hanging, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, loathful, loathsome, mawkish, mucky, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, nefandous, noisome, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, pesky, poisonous, putrid, rank, repellent, repulsive, revolting, shocking, snotty, sordid, sour, stinking, underfoot, wicked), брудний (bawdy, beastly, black, chatty, dirty, dungy, foul, greasy, grimy, hoggish, lousy, mangy, messy, miry, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, puddly, sludgy, smeary, smudgy, smutty, sordid, sozzly, unclean). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thô tục (commonly, foul, grossly), dơ dáy tục tĩu (dirtily), bẩn thỉu (crummy, dirtily, dirty, grubby, messy, miry, mucky, sordid, villainous), ô trọc. (various references)

Welsh

budr (dirty, foul, vile), brwnt (dirty, foul, harsh, nasty, soiled, unclean). (various references)

Yucatec

eek' (dirty, nasty, soiled, unclean). (various references)

foedam, foede, foedum, foedus, inmunda, inmundae, inmundam, inmundas, inmunde, inmundi, inmundis, inmundo, inmundorum, inmundos, inmundum, inmundus, obscoena, sordida, sordidam, sordidis, sordido, sordidos, sordidum, spurcus, squalidae, squalidus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings

"Filthy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: failth, falth, Fathy, felth, felty, fifthy, filoh, Filshie, filthe, Filty, firthy, fithly, Fithyan, flitey, flith, flithy, fylthe. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: filth, fitly.

-2 letters: flit, hilt, lift.

-3 letters: fil, fit, fly, hit, lit, thy, til.

-4 letters: hi, if, it, li, ti.

+1 letter: fifthly, flighty, heftily, lithify.

+2 letters: filthily, frothily, shiftily, whitefly.

+3 letters: flightily, flyweight, platyfish, thriftily.

+4 letters: faithfully, fetchingly, flyweights, lithifying, mirthfully, rightfully.

+5 letters: faithlessly, fishability, fortnightly, frightfully, platyfishes, shiftlessly.