filth
/fɪlθ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.41 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Before we start cooking we need to clean up the filth in this kitchen."
- "He spends all his time watching filth on pornographic websites."
- "Novv all theſe Precepts do not only tend to beget in us ſuch vertues and diſpoſitions, as are reaſonable and ſuitable to our nature, and every vvay for our temporal convenience and advantage; but ſuch, as do likevviſe exceedingly diſpoſe us to piety and religion, by purifying our ſouls from the droſs and filth of ſenſual delights."
- "I think you're scum, I think you're filth. And as far as Elaine's concerned you're to get her out of your filthy mind right now."
- "They were filth, utter filth. I mean, and this tops it. She even bought the video of her sister dying, or at least the sex act that killed her."
- "Grampa remembers when he had to cut filth with a scythe."
Etymology
From Middle English filth, from Old English fȳlþu, from Proto-West Germanic *fūliþu, equivalent to foul + -th (abstract nominal suffix).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Usage
- Uncountable
- Derogatory
- American usage
- Dated
- British usage
- Slang
Inflected Forms
filths (plural)
the filth (canonical)