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Dirty

adjective
(compar. dirtier; superl. dirtiest)
1.
Soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime.  Synonyms: soiled, unclean.  "A child in dirty overalls" , "Dirty slums" , "Piles of dirty dishes" , "Put his dirty feet on the clean sheet" , "Wore an unclean shirt" , "Mining is a dirty job" , "Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves"  Antonym: clean.
2.
(of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency.  "A dirty old man" , "Dirty books and movies" , "Boys telling dirty jokes" , "Has a dirty mouth"  Antonym: clean.
3.
Vile; despicable.  Synonyms: filthy, lousy.  "A filthy traitor"
4.
Spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination.  Synonym: contaminating.  "A dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout"  Antonym: clean.
5.
Contaminated with infecting organisms.  Synonym: pestiferous.  "Obliged to go into infected rooms"
6.
(of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear.  Synonyms: dingy, muddied, muddy.  "A dirty (or dingy) white" , "The muddied grey of the sea" , "Muddy colors" , "Dirty-green walls" , "Dirty-blonde hair"
7.
(of a manuscript) defaced with changes.  Synonyms: foul, marked-up.
8.
Obtained illegally or by improper means.  Synonym: ill-gotten.  "Ill-gotten gains"
9.
Expressing or revealing hostility or dislike.
10.
Violating accepted standards or rules.  Synonyms: cheating, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike.  "Used foul means to gain power" , "A nasty unsporting serve" , "Fined for unsportsmanlike behavior"
11.
Unethical or dishonest.  Synonym: sordid.  "A sordid political campaign"
12.
Unpleasantly stormy.
verb
(past & past part. dirtied; pres. part. dirtying)
1.
Make soiled, filthy, or dirty.  Synonyms: begrime, bemire, colly, grime, soil.  Antonym: clean.



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"Dirty" Quotes from Famous Books



... go home to eat, or to a restaurant in the Rambla. Then he suspected that some of the fugitives from that dirty cafe were near, intending to follow him. In vain he glanced searchingly around: he could not recognize anybody in the groups that were reading the papers or conversing while waiting ...
— Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) - A Novel • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... such a great variety, yet they are all built on the six-sided and six-pointed plan, and are all rendered dazzlingly white by the reflection of the light from the faces of the crystals and the tiny air-bubbles built up within them. This, you see, is why, when the snow melts, you have only a little dirty water in your hand; the crystals are gone and there are no more air-bubbles held prisoners to act as looking-glasses to the light. Hoar-frost is also made up of tiny water-crystals, and is nothing more than frozen dew hanging on the blades of ...
— The Fairy-Land of Science • Arabella B. Buckley
... "none of that. We must have an understanding. Don't you think I should have asked the question, if I meant to sneak out in that dirty sort of way. No, that won't do. It's very kind of you, but we must make all that right. We sha'n't quarrel, I dare say. If you mean you'll do it, I have only just a word or two to ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXVIII. February, 1843. Vol. LIII. • Various
... much in the same light. "She is not dirty, either," he says; and he willingly drinks after her, out of the same cup, putting her in the same ...
— Madame Chrysantheme Complete • Pierre Loti
... middle size, perhaps fifty, bald, and wearing an old leather skull-cap pitted with spark holes. His nose was crooked and his eyes were set in toward it, narrow and close together. He wore an ancient leather apron, burned here and there and dirty, and his arms were bare to ...
— Dwellers in the Hills • Melville Davisson Post


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