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Meanings of filth in English
Synonyms
Examples for "obscenity"
Examples for "obscenity"
1
Adult obscenity cases have been exceedingly rare over the past 20 years.
2
The law frames pornography as an issue of obscenity, decency and morality.
3
Few of us want our political debate to slip into rampant obscenity.
4
There were several invalid protest ballots including one that carried an obscenity.
5
They put an obstacle on all types of obscenity and protect society.'
1
They are worse than the fly in hops, or smut in barley.
2
No wonder smut is the worst trouble for wheat-raisers in the Northwest.
3
We had a remarkable instance of smut in our corn last summer.
4
Try this and estimate the per cent of smut at next harvest-time.
5
Sorghum is affected by a smut similar to that of other grains.
1
There are gradations in awkwardness and vulgarism, as there are in everything else.
2
Why,' said the prof, 'to employ a vulgarism, perspicuity is my penultimate appellative.'
3
You are not-ifI may be permitted an expressive vulgarism-inthe same street with them.
4
Punning is a vulgarism that should be scrupulously avoided.
5
No, in good truth: who can like such vulgarism!
1
The clerk looked at me as if I'd shouted a dirty word.
2
Speaking in London, John Sawers said secrecy was not a dirty word.
3
Despite material success Irish people still see consumerism as a dirty word.
4
Faux-natural is a problem if it turns natural into a dirty word.
5
Imagine a time when software was considered a dirty word by investors.
Usage of filth in English
1
It shows the filth of the regime of corruption, Lopez Obrador said.
2
The invaders left it in an indescribable state of disorder and filth.
3
It felt good to see Renée laughing over a little innocent filth.
4
The houses are rather larger, and they surpass the others in filth.
5
Baptism is not the putting away of the filth of the flesh.
6
The other took it and dropped it as if it were filth.
7
A flash of light from Fujiyama awakens a glimmer in the filth.
8
Everywhere beggars were crawling over the compound in various states of filth.
9
Nothing clung to him of all the filth in which he trod.
10
The evaporating surface of this filth was more than 2000 square yards.
11
A surge of green filth and mud spread and dyed the water.
12
That was why I was here in rags and filth and wretchedness.
13
The next morning finds them yet wallowing in filth, weak and feeble.
14
I've wallowed so long in the filth that it has covered me.
15
This is the filth the German paper was not ashamed to print.
16
Ofttimes sitteth filth on the throne.-andofttimes also the throne on filth.
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Filth through the time
Filth across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common
Ireland
Common