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The phrase "a filthy man" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is unclean in appearance or behavior, often implying moral corruption or depravity.
Example: "The townspeople avoided him, whispering about the notorious reputation of a filthy man who lived on the outskirts."
Alternatives: "a dirty man" or "a sordid individual".
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"And a man covered in dirt" — a filthy man approaches — "rubs up on your shirt".
A woman in tatters lies prostrate in the dirt; a filthy man crouches over her.
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He's a filthy, filthy man," with such great emphasis that I could only wonder what Iovine had done to this kind soul.
His father's death – a gross, bloated, filthy man living in unimaginable squalor – bottles everywhere, soiled clothes, shit on the living-room sofa – who had, by then, moved back in with his mother, Knausgaard's grandmother, who was herself now incontinent, her mind wandering.
Imagine if Odysseus were nothing more than a filthy, shipwrecked man.
Anthony Hopkins, a brilliant actor, is immaculately clad in a dark suit, while Lewis was a filthy old man dripping beer and tobacco everywhere.
Harpies, the half-bird, half-woman creatures of Greek mythology, terrorise Pullman's underworld, and the boatman is described as "aged beyond age, huddled in a robe of sacking bound with string, crippled and bent," closely resembling Seneca's description of the mythical Charon as "a filthy old man who conveys the terrified ghosts" across to Hades.
Blowfly Is a Filthy Old Man.
Slowly, the folks you assume would patronize a Bukowski-themed bar trickled in: a man-child wearing a scarf and bandaged knuckles, no doubt injured in a moment of "passion"; a group of young dweebs, who drank their beers in confused, awkward silence; a filthy-mouthed man draped in Dodgers paraphernalia. .
He makes no bones about exploiting "filthy" man-made parliamentary democracy to try to return a Muslim majority government in "50 years, something like this" as a prelude to "Islam spreading all over the world" under "the law of Allah" which is "superior to any other law".
Gay men are just a filthy as straight men, maybe even less so.
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