Dirty
Dirty verb - To make dirty.
Filter
Filter verb - To remove usually visible impurities from.
Usage example: after frying the chicken, we filtered the oil and kept it in the refrigerator to use again
Common collocations
| results | dirty results | filter results |
Both words in one sentence
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It's revealed shortly after that Vaarsuvius used Roy's dirty socks to filter it.
Source: Spit Take -
The City of Heroes profanity filter was rather weird to start with (censoring "Jew", for instance) but at one point it went totally bonkers, censoring words seemingly at random — "fist" can maybe be read as dirty, but some of the other variants most definitely not.
Source: Scunthorpe Problem -
In the episode, "Keeping Up With Our Joneses" (where the entire family, sans Luanne, gets addicted to cigarettes), Boomhauer gave a lecture on the effects of smoking on your lungs, comparing a dirty air filter to a clean one, before being led away by a random woman, during the end credits.
Source: And Knowing Is Half the Battle
Cite this Source
Filter and Dirty. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/dirty/filter
Dirty & Filter. N.p., 2016. Web. 13 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/dirty/filter>.
Filter or Dirty. 2016. Accessed August 13, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/dirty/filter.
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