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Dirty   /dˈərti/   Listen
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"
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"
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"
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.



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"Dirty" Quotes from Famous Books



... have been roughing it; and though some parts of the letter may be neither very comprehensible nor very interesting to you, I think that perhaps it might amuse Willie Traquair, who delights in all such dirty jobs. ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... 'why there's no picture of Father Christmas's dog in the book.' For at the old man's heels in the lane there crept a little brown and white spaniel looking very dirty in the snow. ...
— The Children's Book of Christmas Stories • Various
... think you would find Coblentz, where we were obliged to take up our night's lodging, much to your taste. 'Tis a mean, dirty assemblage of plastered houses, striped with paint, and set off with wooden galleries, in the beautiful taste of St. Giles's. Above, on a rock, stands the palace of the Elector, which seems to be remarkable ...
— Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents • William Beckford
... Two laborers, gross, tanned, dirty, were fighting. They had swung side-on as the hole opened, and her glance focused itself upon the smaller of the two. He was an old man, quite gray; and down his scalp ran a stream of bright blood which trickled ...
— The Readjustment • Will Irwin
... this magic matto die soon, rejoicing. Before the last breath comes, it is said their bodies turn into a handful of silver dust—poof!—like that." He snapped his dirty fingers. "Then the life that leaves them ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 • Various


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