filthy

Adjective complement with noun phrase

make: Unfortunately his potential customers read right to left in Arabic - they saw his product making clean clothes filthy.

Modifies a noun

• lucre: In the end neither Tom or Cheryl got their hands on the filthy lucre.
• rag: I visited a second time a poor dying sinner, who now gives up his own filthy rags for the best robe.
• garment: In God's sight he, clothed in filthy garments, represented the nation.
• habit: Anyone who doesn't must change their filthy habits.
• cage: Animals on fur farms spend their entire lives confined to cramped, filthy wire cages.

Modifying Another Word

• utterly: I'm very tempted to try ordering something utterly filthy.
• absolutely: They are, apart from a health hazard, absolutely filthy.
• pretty: Two hours solid left me with an ache in my shoulder and pretty filthy!
• so: At first his wife cried because the house was so filthy, with drawings on the walls and bacon fat all over.
• too: And Friend, there is no sin too filthy that Jesus cannot cleanse!
• really: A really filthy day, but they got the job done, and deserve our thanks.

Used with adjective complement

• become: The more typical traveler would have to move when the site became too filthy.
• get: We dare you to get filthy with them, they may just get filthy back!
• come: My car also came back filthy, so I am not sure where it was parked when I went away!
• look: But our clean sheet looks pretty filthy against the brilliance of God and his law.
• call: Ellis has an African Gray parrot called Filthy Lucre.