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Filth

Foul matter; anything that soils or defiles; dirt; nastiness.

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Bawdry 76% connected

The practice of procuring women for the gratification of lust.

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Bawdy 76% connected

Dirty; foul; -- said of clothes.

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Dirtiness 76% connected

The state of being dirty; filthiness; foulness; nastiness; baseness; sordidness.

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Profanity 76% connected

The quality or state of being profane; profaneness; irreverence; esp., the use of profane language; blasphemy.

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Waste 76% connected

Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

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Filthy 74% connected

Defiled with filth, whether material or moral; nasty; dirty; polluted; foul; impure; obscene.

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Filthy 74% connected

Defiled with filth, whether material or moral; nasty; dirty; polluted; foul; impure; obscene.

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Smutty 74% connected

Soiled with smut; smutted.

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Smutty 74% connected

Soiled with smut; smutted.

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Synonym 12

Crud 92% connected

See Curd.

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Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Dirt 92% connected

Any foul of filthy substance, as excrement, mud, dust, etc.; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth; as, a wagonload of di…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Filthiness 92% connected

The state of being filthy.

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Foulness 92% connected

The quality or condition of being foul.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Grease 92% connected

Animal fat, as tallow or lard, especially when in a soft state; oily or unctuous matter of any kind.

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Grime 92% connected

Foul matter; dirt, rubbed in; sullying blackness, deeply ingrained.

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Nastiness 92% connected

The quality or state of being nasty; extreme filthness; dirtiness; also, indecency; obscenity.

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Obscenity 92% connected

That quality in words or things which presents what is offensive to chasity or purity of mind; obscene or impure lanquage or acts; moral impurity; le…

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Smut 92% connected

Foul matter, like soot or coal dust; also, a spot or soil made by such matter.

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Soil 92% connected

To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence…

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Stain 92% connected

To discolor by the application of foreign matter; to make foul; to spot; as, to stain the hand with dye; armor stained with blood.

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Vulgarism 92% connected

Grossness; rudeness; vulgarity.

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