FILTHY in a Sentence

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He then took from his pocket a filthy blue handkerchief, reversing it so that his small audience could examine both sides.

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 Meanings and Examples of FILTHY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
filthy
 a.  nasty; dirty; polluted; foul; impure
Classic Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  The snow was gone except for filthy woolly patches under trees, the thermometer leaped in a day from wind-bitten chill to itchy warmth.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
2  The race regardless of advancement is penned into filthy, stifling partitions cut off from smoking cars.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In IV
3  All day long he would crawl around the floor in a filthy little dress, whining and fretting; because the floor was full of drafts he was always catching cold, and snuffling because his nose ran.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
4  She wore a filthy blue wrapper, and her teeth were black.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
5  She was dressed in a single filthy, ragged garment, made of bagging; and stood with her hands demurely folded before her.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
6  She felt the time not far off when she would be buried there, added to the ghastly host under the tombstones and the monuments, in these filthy Midlands.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
7  'Even burnt, it's filthy,' he said.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
8  The kennel was stagnant and filthy.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
9  The street was very narrow and muddy, and the air was impregnated with filthy odours.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
10  In its filthy shops are exposed for sale huge bunches of second-hand silk handkerchiefs, of all sizes and patterns; for here reside the traders who purchase them from pick-pockets.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
11  The letters cut in the stained wood of the desk stared upon him, mocking his bodily weakness and futile enthusiasms and making him loathe himself for his own mad and filthy orgies.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
12  The last sins oozed forth, sluggish, filthy.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
13  He lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
14  "Sha, 's nothing," said Mr. Kernan, closing his mouth and pulling the collar of his filthy coat across his neck.'
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
15  I have got accustomed to hear you talking about men as rotters, and calling everything filthy and beastly; though I do think it horrible and unladylike.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
Example Sentence:
1  The huts they lived in were sordid and filthy beyond belief.
2  He then took from his pocket a filthy blue handkerchief, reversing it so that his small audience could examine both sides.
3  He's a filthy lying son of a bitch.
4  This place is filthy; I don't believe anyone can live here.
5  Obama and his wife reported income of $8 million in his first three years in office, largely from royalties on his memoirs, which were best-sellers because of his political fame. And the Obamas will soon go from rich to filthy rich.