Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a filthy manner; foully; offensively.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a filthy manner; foully.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a filthy manner

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in a filthy unclean manner

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Examples

  • Not only is the worker poorly fed, but he is filthily fed.

    COFFEE-HOUSES AND DOSS-HOUSES 2010

  • Nii was dreaming, filthily, completely, in anatomical detail, dreams that would shame most but only gave him a boner the size of a V-2.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

  • It's wildly uneven, but when it's good it's filthily good.

    Ephemera 2009 (8) - The Mostly TV Edition Rogers 2009

  • And March still waited in the wings, a miserable month of dripping ice and melting snow and the last vestiges of winter lurking filthily in shadowy places.

    The Lovers John Connolly 2009

  • Nii was dreaming, filthily, completely, in anatomical detail, dreams that would shame most but only gave him a boner the size of a V-2.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

  • Nii was dreaming, filthily, completely, in anatomical detail, dreams that would shame most but only gave him a boner the size of a V-2.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

  • And he used a word, a word for weres that they never used themselves, a filthily unpleasant word that implied an improper relationship between wolves and human women.

    Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series Cassandra Clare 2009

  • They had put him into a cell similar to the one he was now in, but filthily dirty and at all times crowded by ten or fifteen people.

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

  • They had put him into a cell similar to the one he was now in, but filthily dirty and at all times crowded by ten or fifteen people.

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

  • At the risk of sounding filthily pretentious, I'd like to see if it's possible to just be a floating... information node rather than a discrete bit of walking data and chips.

    New Year's Resolutions Rogers 2008

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