I referred to my fave dictionary (Amer. Herit. 4th Ed.) for relevant definitions of “filthy” and found nothing that applied to “rich” in this way. But the very next entry was for “filthy rich”, defined as “extremely rich” with no negative evaluation attached. Comparing to how phrases like “any one” or “some thing” merged into single words over the last century or so, it wouldn’t surprise me if soon we will describe bajillionaires as “filthyrich”. As for me, I’m just reasonablycomfortablethankyou.
I referred to my fave dictionary (Amer. Herit. 4th Ed.) for relevant definitions of “filthy” and found nothing that applied to “rich” in this way. But the very next entry was for “filthy rich”, defined as “extremely rich” with no negative evaluation attached. Comparing to how phrases like “any one” or “some thing” merged into single words over the last century or so, it wouldn’t surprise me if soon we will describe bajillionaires as “filthyrich”. As for me, I’m just reasonablycomfortablethankyou.