Meaning of filthily | Babel Free
Equivalents
Ελληνικά
βρόμικα
Italiano
immondamente
laidamente
lerciamente
lordamente
luridamente
sordidamente
sozzamente
turpemente
ქართული
ბინძურად
Latina
spurce
Examples
“[…] I waded through with some difficulty, and one of the footmen wiped me as clean⟳ as he could with his handkerchief, for I was filthily bemired; and my nurse confined me to my box, till we returned home […]”
“I felt a peculiar shrinking from those pallid bodies. They were just the half-bleached colour of the worms and things one sees preserved in spirit in a zoological museum. And they were filthily cold to the touch⟳.”
“Could it be that he, Stephen Dedalus, had done those things? His conscience sighed in answer⟳. Yes, he had done them, secretly, filthily, time after time, and, hardened in sinful impenitence, he had dared to wear⟳ the mask of holiness before the tabernacle itself while his soul within was a living mass of corruption.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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