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filthily

adv

Etymology

From filthy + -ly.

  1. inherited from filthy
  2. suffixed as filthily — “filthy + ly”

Definitions

  1. in a filthy manner

    • […] 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.

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