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Discover LudwigThe phrase "filthy book" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used as an adjective phrase to describe a book that is morally corrupt, obscene, or contains explicit content. Example: "I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw my teenage son reading a filthy book filled with graphic sex scenes."
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("It's a filthy, filthy book," one school board declared in 2001).
"That's a filthy book — I didn't know he would have asked you to read that.
He pleaded not guilty and listened as the prosecution outlined the case against the "bestial obscenity" of this "filthy book".
It's a filthy book".
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Pumped up on the Index, the Catholic Legion of Decency listed films whose viewing would send me to hell, or at least to the library to borrow the filthy books adapted by Hollywood.
This statement provoked a reaction from the Sunday Express, whose editor called it "the filthiest book I have ever read" and "sheer unrestrained pornography".
In Coupland's own present and near future are two writing projects: "a nonfiction exploration of the optical fiber wiring of Earth and what this says about our future and our inner worlds," and "the world's filthiest book.
Reviews of Irvine Welsh's A Decent Ride, described by his publishers as his "filthiest book yet", have been cagily positive, though have treated it perhaps as something strange or exotic.
It is a doubtful honor to produce one of the filthiest books of the year .... What is the matter?
I mean, the lewd phrases alone are enough to fill a filthy reference book or three.
The focus of the committee's inquiry was "the kind of filthy sex books sold at the corner store which are affecting the youth of our country," as Gathings described it.
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