Dirty
['dɜːtɪ] or ['dɝti]
Definition
(verb.) make soiled, filthy, or dirty; 'don't soil your clothes when you play outside!'.
(adj.) unpleasantly stormy; 'there's dirty weather in the offing' .
(adj.) 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' .
(adj.) (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' .
(adj.) 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' .
(adj.) unethical or dishonest; 'dirty police officers'; 'a sordid political campaign' .
(adj.) expressing or revealing hostility or dislike; 'dirty looks' .
(adj.) obtained illegally or by improper means; 'dirty money'; 'ill-gotten gains' .
(adj.) (of a manuscript) defaced with changes; 'foul (or dirty) copy' .
(adj.) vile; despicable; 'a dirty (or lousy) trick'; 'a filthy traitor' .
(adj.) (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' .
(adj.) contaminated with infecting organisms; 'dirty wounds'; 'obliged to go into infected rooms'- Jane Austen .
Typed by Hester--From WordNet
Definition
(superl.) Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white.
(superl.) Sullied; clouded; -- applied to color.
(superl.) Sordid; base; groveling; as, a dirty fellow.
(superl.) Sleety; gusty; stormy; as, dirty weather.
(v. t.) To foul; to make filthy; to soil; as, to dirty the clothes or hands.
(v. t.) To tarnish; to sully; to scandalize; -- said of reputation, character, etc.
Checker: Roberta
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1].Unclean, foul, filthy, nasty, soiled, begrimed.[2].Clouded, cloudy, dark, sullied.[3].Mean, base, vile, low, grovelling, sneaking, pitiful, paltry, beggarly, scurvy, shabby, despicable, contemptible.
v. a. Foul, befoul, soil, defile, draggle, daggle.
Checker: Ophelia
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See DIET_and_NASTY]
Checker: Millicent
Examples
- His arms were wet and dirty, and he washed them over the side. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Oh, the dirty, vile, treacherous sod. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- As I perceive that your boots, although used, are by no means dirty, I cannot doubt that you are at present busy enough to justify the hansom. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- So, he sat down at the foot of his little iron bedstead, and began to wonder how much a year the warder made out of the dirty room. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It's awful dirty. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Is it the dirtiest vun o' the two? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He tries to do it; he says he'll bring me down and humble me, and he puts me to just the hardest, meanest and dirtiest work, on purpose! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- In all my experience along the dirtiest ways of this dirty little world, I have never met with such a thing as a trifle yet. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- A dirtier or more wretched place he had never seen. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The house in Thavies Inn had bills in the windows announcing that it was to let, and it looked dirtier and gloomier and ghastlier than ever. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He cut off a thin sliver of the surface that had dirtied in his pocket, then cut a thick slice. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I assured his lordship that I should not like him a bit the better for dirtying his hands or his gloves with my muddy shoes: but he was peremptory. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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