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Dirtiness

noun
1.
The state of being unsanitary.  Synonym: uncleanness.
2.
The state of containing dirty impurities.
3.
Obscenity in speech or writing.  Synonym: smuttiness.






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"Dirtiness" Quotes from Famous Books



... the soldiers, their deliberate, nasty dirtiness during the first two years of the War seemed due rather to their officers' orders than to an anti-human disposition of their own. Many of the soldiers in Belgium, in Brussels, turned round—so to speak—and conceived a horror of what they had done, of what they had been told to do. Men who ...
— Mrs. Warren's Daughter - A Story of the Woman's Movement • Sir Harry Johnston

... quite clean. The tramp is as clean as his life permits him to be ... usually ... the myth about his dirtiness is another of the myths of the newspaper and magazine world ... though I have seen ...
— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp

... felt rather proud of our appearance. As we only got our uniforms when we came up here, and have always had our tents to sleep in, we looked a great deal cleaner than the average. Now we shall be conspicuous for our dirtiness." ...
— With Buller in Natal - A Born Leader • G. A. Henty

... true Christian ought to be clean and tidy outside as well as in. Christ's servants should look always cleaner and neater than any one else; for aren't we told to adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things? And don't dirtiness and untidiness in Christians bring a reproach on religion? And then, if things are out of their place—all sixes and sevens—why, it's just setting a trap for your feet. You'll stumble, and lose your temper and your time, and ...
— True to his Colours - The Life that Wears Best • Theodore P. Wilson



Words linked to "Dirtiness" :   dirt, lewdness, defilement, salacity, griminess, soil, befoulment, grease, cleanness, sanitary condition, dinginess, salaciousness, squalidness, impureness, squalor, sordidness, filth, feculence, bawdiness, dirty, dinge, obscenity, grubbiness, impurity, stain, dustiness, sootiness, grunge, pollution, grime



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