filthy
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As Brusuelas puts it: "It's the cleanest shirt in a very filthy laundry."
From BBC • Jun. 14, 2026
"It was filthy, dirty and it leaked like a sieve for many years," he said in a White House video.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
Strong supports the closing of Men’s Central Jail and said the department needed to look at medical care, filthy living conditions and a lack of healthy food and clean water.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
Norway still exports plenty of oil and gas to the rest of Europe, while China’s electric age has been backed by filthy coal.
From Slate • Mar. 12, 2026
I sank down on the narrow bed, then went into a fresh paroxysm of coughs as a cloud of choking black dust rose from the filthy straw mattress.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Vocabulary lists containing filthy
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