filthiness

  • 121scurrilousness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. Harsh, often insulting language: abuse, billingsgate, contumely, invective, obloquy, railing, revilement, reviling, scurrility, vituperation. See PRAISE. 2. The quality or state of being obscene: bawdiness,… …

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  • 122uncleanliness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The condition or state of being dirty: dirtiness, filth, filthiness, foulness, griminess, grubbiness, smuttiness, squalor, uncleanness. See CLEAN …

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  • 123vulgarness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The quality or state of being obscene: bawdiness, coarseness, dirtiness, filthiness, foulness, grossness, lewdness, obscenity, profaneness, profanity, scurrility, scurrilousness, smuttiness, vulgarity. Slang: raunch,… …

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  • 124filthy — (adj.) late 12c., fulthe, corrupt, sinful, from FILTH (Cf. filth) + Y (Cf. y) (2). Meaning physically unclean is from late 14c. Meaning morally dirty, obscene is from 1530s. In early use often hardly more emphatic than the mod. dirty; it is now a …

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  • 125obscenity — (n.) c.1600, obscene quality, from L. obscenitatem (nom. obscenitas) inauspiciousness, filthiness, from obscenus (see OBSCENE (Cf. obscene)). Meaning a foul or loathsome act is 1610s. Sense of an obscene utterance or word is attested by 1690.… …

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  • 126crustie — n British a homeless person and/or beggar, espe cially a member of a militant subculture of importunate vagrants of the early 1990s, centred on the English West Country, who practised deliberate self degradation and embraced personal filthiness… …

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  • 127crappiness — n. worthlessness; filthiness …

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  • 128dirtiness — dirt·i·ness || dɜːtɪnɪs n. filthiness, uncleanness; ugliness …

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