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filth

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Filth is a 1998 novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh . A sequel, Crime , was published in 2008. It was adapted into a 2013 film of the same name , directed by Jon S. Baird with James McAvoy in the lead role.

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n. any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant [syn: crud , skank ] the state of being covered with unclean things [syn: dirt , grime , soil , stain , grease , grunge ] a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse [syn: filthiness ...

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n. 1 dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles 2 smut; that which sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution 3 (context British pejorative slang English) the police 4 (context US agriculture, dated English) weeds growing on pasture ...

Usage examples of filth.

Rather, as the old filth and gloomy sickness were cleared away, there would emerge a larger, stronger, older, brainier, better-nourished, better-oxygenated, more vital human type, able to eat and drink sanely, perfectly autonomous and well regulated in desires, going nude while attending tranquilly to duties, performing his fascinating and useful mental work.

West African hellhole of Sierra Leone, years of civil war and barbarism had left the once-rich former British colony a vista of chaos, banditry, filth, disease, poverty and hacked-off limbs.

The women who were still watching Hsia wallow in filth and blood clapped their hands and cried agreement.

If comparisons are to be ventured, the pleasures of the lusts of evil can only be compared to the lewd pleasures of frogs in stagnant ponds or to those of snakes in filth, while the pleasures of the affections of good must be likened to the delights which the mind takes in gardens and flower beds.

Under Madame Mao any kind of waltz would have been considered a corrupt influence and would have been banned along with every other form of Western filth.

Not with the dust and filth of an atmosphere, for the saucer had obviously not been very long in air, but with the pocks and blazes of space.

Wide lakes of putrid water and huge mounds of debris and filth lay everywhere, but in amongst the mud and the undergrowth, makeshift cabins had been thrown together with rooves of tarred canvas.

This is, in a sense, a cleaning of our own house, and the filth that we must scrub out of our blood shames us.

Likewise true, north and east of them laired the Huns, horsemen, stockbreeders, akin to trolls in their ugliness, filth, and bloodlust.

Her voice flowed on evenly, the words came to her readily, and she quickly strung them, like bright, varicolored beads, on strong threads of her desire to cleanse her heart of the blood and filth of that day.

They walked down the hill into the poorest section of the town, into a tangle of alleyways where half-dressed children played in the filth that was hurled from the night-buckets into the roadway.

I want him to scour the halls with fellow bottom feeders and become the filth he believed he could cleanse.

They were entering a district of factories and warehouses, of streets that even litterbugs ignored and whose gutters overflowed with filth, of alleys choked with honeysuckle, of cracked masonry and burned-out hulks, of stark desolation softened only by the draperies of the honeysuckle vines.

Laio had told me in no uncertain terms that only mainlanders wallowed in their own filth, while decent people rinsed themselves clean with fresh water.

The dankness and musty odor kept his nose on the edge of a sneezing fit the whole way, the dust and filth made his skin crawl, and every few seconds some form of insect or other multilegged creature skittered away into the deeper recesses of the opening or into the cover of the moisture-vine roots that continually brushed against his hands and face.