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were destroyed along with their filth. 3 indecency, obscenity,
smut, pornography, corruption, nastiness, vulgarity, grossness:
The censors forbade the showing of films with any hint of filth.
filthy adj. 1 defiled, polluted, tainted, foul, nasty, dirty, unclean,
vile, putrid, rotten, fetid or foetid, maggoty, fly-blown,
purulent, feculent, faecal, scummy, slimy, mucky, Slang cruddy,
Brit gungy, US grungy: That city's public lavatories are the
filthiest I have ever seen. 2 dirty, unwashed, begrimed,
squalid, sordid, shabby, soiled, low, stained, grimy,
bedraggled, unkempt, slovenly, sloppy, mean, scurvy, disgusting,
miserable, wretched, Slang Brit gungy, US grungy: The filthy
beggar turned out to be Holmes in disguise. 3 immoral, taboo or
tabu, indecent, impure, obscene, smutty, pornographic, X-rated,
depraved, corrupt, dirty, lewd, lascivious, licentious, gross,
offensive, coarse, bawdy, ribald, blue, suggestive,
foul-mouthed, dirty-minded, filthy-minded: Customs officers
confiscated thousands of filthy books, magazines, films, and
videos.
final adj. 1 ending, concluding, terminating, finishing, closing,
last, terminal, ultimate, end: The final sentence needs
rewriting. 2 conclusive, decisive, unalterable, irreversible,
irrevocable, incontrovertible, irrefutable, indisputable,
unchangeable, immutable, definitive; settled, fixed, absolute,
certain, sure: Those are my final words on the subject. We made
a final series of measurements.
finality n. conclusiveness, decisiveness, unalterability,
irreversibility, irrevocableness, incontrovertibility,
irrefutability, indisputability, unchangeability, immutability,
definitiveness, certainty, certitude, sureness, fixedness:
There is an air of finality in the way she gives orders.
finalize v. conclude, settle, complete, decide, Colloq wrap up, clinch,
sew up: We finalized the agreement yesterday by signing the
contract.
finally adv. 1 at (long) last, lastly, eventually, in the end,
ultimately, at length, when all is said and done, in the long
run, at the end of the day, at the last moment: We finally
arrived in port. 2 conclusively, once and for all, decisively,
irrevocably, in fine, completely, inexorably, absolutely,