For nearly a year, Magnitsky was kept in Moscow jails, in conditions so filthy that his health rapidly deteriorated.

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For two decades, beginning in 1985, the city worked to clean up a blighted 13-mile industrial corridor along the Tennessee River, a stretch so filthy that motorists used to have to use their headlights during the day.

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Oliver Twist also highlights the rank poverty of the inner cities - particularly when the plot moves to Jacob's Island, " the filthiest, the strangest, the most extraordinary of the many localities that are hidden in London " where the houses were "so filthy, so confined, that the air would seem to be too tainted even for the dirt and squalor".

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Their job is so degrading, filthy and full of health hazards that the Indian government banned it many years ago.

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They stood by as the President ludicrously accused the Republicans of deliberately inflicting harm on sick children so that their filthy rich supporters could have their corporate jets.

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" Joe and his family were in "one half of the attic consisting of three rooms, which were so low that a person of medium height could not stand erect a filthy, foul-smelling home.

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