Examples from literature

• Filthiness is productive of disease and favorable to its development. 
• For filthiness and grime are chiefly pleasing to those who have been stricken with ailments of the soul. 
• Its dreariness, like the filthiness of the police cell, was a discovery for her. 
• The interior of the kitchen, of which I had a good view through the door, was more revolting in its filthiness than the room in which we were seated. 
• They are half clothed, half fed, and their filthiness is painful to behold.