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Make soiled, filthy, or dirty Don't soil your clothes when you play outside! |
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Soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime Dirty unswept sidewalks 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 |
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(of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency Dirty words A dirty old man Dirty books and movies Boys telling dirty jokes Has a dirty mouth |
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Vile Despicable A dirty (or lousy) trick A filthy traitor |
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Spreading pollution or contamination Especially radioactive contamination The air near the foundry was always dirty A dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout |
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Contaminated with infecting organisms Dirty wounds Obliged to go into infected rooms- Jane Austen |
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(of color) discolored by impurities Not bright and clear Dirty is often used in combination A dirty (or dingy) white The muddied grey of the sea Muddy colors Dirty-green walls Dirty-blonde hair |
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(of a manuscript) defaced with changes Foul (or dirty) copy |
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Obtained illegally or by improper means Dirty money Ill-gotten gains |
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Expressing or revealing hostility or dislike Dirty looks |
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Violating accepted standards or rules A dirty fighter Used foul means to gain power A nasty unsporting serve Fined for unsportsmanlike behavior |
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Unethical or dishonest Dirty police officers A sordid political campaign |
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Unpleasantly stormy There's dirty weather in the offing |
| adj | dirty, soiled, unclean, bedraggled, draggled, befouled, fouled, begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy, bespattered, spattered, besplashed, splashed, black, buggy, dirty-faced, dusty, dust-covered, fecal, faecal, feculent, filthy, foul, nasty, flyblown, squalid, sordid, greasy, oily, lousy, mucky, muddy, scummy, smeared, smirched, smudged, smudgy, snotty, snot-nosed, travel-soiled, travel-stained, unswept, unwashed, maculate, unclean, impure, untidy |
| adj | dirty, bawdy, off-color, ribald, dirty-minded, filthy, foul, nasty, smutty, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, lewd, obscene, raunchy, salacious, scabrous, scatological, blasphemous, blue, profane, indecent |
| adj | filthy, lousy, nasty, awful |
| adj | dirty, contaminating |
| adj | contaminated, infected, pestiferous, septic |
| adj | dingy, muddied, muddy, impure |
| adj | foul, marked-up, illegible |
| adj | ill-gotten, illegal |
| adj | hostile |
| adj | cheating, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike, unfair, unjust |
| adj | sordid, corrupt |
| adj | stormy |
| verb | soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire, change, alter, modify |