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filthy

Filthy means very, very dirty.

Look at Joey. He's covered in mud. He's absolutely filthy.

Check out the adjective and its collocations

With adverbs

really filthy
absolutely filthy

With nouns

filthy clothes, filthy children
(= very, very dirty)
a filthy day, filthy weather
(= the weather is very, very bad, with lots of rain and wind - informal)
filthy language, a filthy book/magazine, a filthy mind
(= rude/pornographic)

Check out the adverb and its collocations

He's filthy rich.
(= very, very rich)
It's filthy dirty.
(= very, very dirty)

Check out the noun

Look at the filth in this room. It will take a week to clean it.
(= thick, horrible dirt)
I looked at that article in the magazine. It's pure filth!
(= offensively pornographic)

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