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Dirty

Dirty Meaning & Definition
Dirty Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Dirty?

[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"; "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] violating accepted standards or rules; "a dirty fighter"; "used foul means to gain power"; "a nasty unsporting serve"; "fined for unsportsmanlike behavior"
[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 gray 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
[v] make soiled, filthy, or dirty; "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Dirty: awful | bawdy | bedraggled | befouled | begrime | begrimed | bemire | bespattered | besplashed | black | blasphemous | blue | buggy | cheating(a) | colly | contaminated | contaminating | corrupt | dingy | dirty-minded | draggled | dust-covered | dusty | faecal | fecal | feculent | filthy | flyblown | foul | fouled | foul-mouthed | foul-spoken | greasy | grime | grimy | grubby | grungy | hostile | illegal | illegible | ill-gotten | infected | lewd | lousy | maculate | marked-up | mucky | muddied | muddy | nasty | obscene | off-color | oily | profane | raunchy | ribald | salacious | scabrous | scatological | scummy | septic | smeared | smirched | smudged | smudgy | smutty | snot-nosed | snotty | soil | soiled | sordid | spattered | splashed | squalid | stormy | travel-soiled | travel-stained | unclean | unfair | unjust | unsporting | unsportsmanlike | unswept | unwashed

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See Also | alter | blemish | change | contaminate | crock | foul | impure | indecent | mire | muck | muck up | mud | muddy | muddy up | pollute | slime | smear | splash | spot | untidy

Dirty In Webster's Dictionary

\Dirt"y\, a. [Compar. {Dirtier}; superl. {Dirtiest}.] 1. Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white. --Spenser. 2. Sullied; clouded; -- applied to color. --Locke. 3. Sordid; base; groveling; as, a dirty fellow. The creature's at his dirty work again. --Pope. 4. Sleety; gusty; stormy; as, dirty weather. Storms of wind, clouds of dust, an angry, dirty sea. --M. Arnold. Syn: Nasty; filthy; foul. See {Nasty}.
\Dirt"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dirtied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dirtying}.] 1. To foul; to make filthy; to soil; as, to dirty the clothes or hands. 2. To tarnish; to sully; to scandalize; -- said of reputation, character, etc.

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