adjective, adverb
adjective (filthier, filthiest)
1 very dirty and unpleasant:
filthy rags / streets * It's filthy in here!
2 very rude and offensive and usually connected with sex:
filthy language / words * He's got a filthy mind (= is always thinking about sex).
3 (informal) showing anger:
He was in a filthy mood. * She has a filthy temper. * Ann gave him a filthy look.
4 (BrE, informal) (of the weather) cold and wet:
Isn't it a filthy day?
filthily adverb
filthiness noun [U]
adverb (informal)
1 ~ dirty extremely dirty
2 ~ rich so rich that you think the person is too rich and you find it offensive
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for filthy is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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