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

Typed by Clyde

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