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Definition of dirty:
- Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white.
- Sleety; gusty; stormy; as, dirty weather.
- Sordid; base; groveling; as, a dirty fellow.
- Sullied; clouded; - applied to color.
- To foul; to make filthy; to soil; as, to dirty the clothes or hands.
- To tarnish; to sully; to scandalize; - said of reputation, character, etc.
Synonyms:
grotty, inclement, thorough, snot-nosed, ill-gotten, bleak, lousy, raunchy, feculent, gloomy, purchasable, quaggy, greasy, squalid, dust-covered, galling, grungy, sloughy, spattered, illegal, cheating, drab, utter, grime, grubby, base, bemire, profane, vexatious, bespattered, disagreeable, pestilent, gutter, scurvy, ripe, execrable, vexing, smutty, squally, ruthless, obscene, stinking, corruptible, ratty, pestering, dusty, smudged, foul-spoken, pitiful, funky, unsightly, loathsome, bust, maculate, revolting, rotten, repellant, cheap, annoying, seamy, skanky, black, repelling, nasty, muddy, unswept, heavy, wanton, smeared, grimy, raging, unauthorized, marked-up, sorry, low-minded, disgustful, lame, hostile, dingy, stormy, porny, lewd, unspeakable, plaguey, trashy, crappy, unlawful, ignominious, rough, scummy, mirky, blasphemous, fecal, flyblown, spotted, tumultuous, pestiferous, spotless, Fescennine, paltry, sooty, befouled, locker-room, pestilential, squashy, foul-mouthed, dirty-minded, scabrous, X-rated, stained, draggled, comedown, smudgy, sneaking, waterlogged, stag, scatologic, cruddy, noisome, marshy, such as it is, excruciating, besplashed, slimy, ribald, polluted, splashed, unsporting, mean, coarse, drear, smirched, besmirched, unjust, dependence, scurrilous, plaguy, oily, foul, begrime, crackhouse, utterly, low, mess up, bawdy, foul-smelling, swampy, sleazy, contemptible, awful, travel-soiled, lascivious, roily, salacious, abuse, wretched, unsportsmanlike, bothersome, dark, roiled, faecal, nettlesome, slatternly, pitiable, begrimed, low-down, bribable, shitty, decent, unpolished, barnyard, corrupt, scabby, cloudy, cold turkey, colly, scrubby, addiction, repellent, irritating, currish, unclean, unprintable, clean, stinky, seedy, calm, sanitary, disconsolate, turbulent, downright, unwashed, dismal, perversive, detestable, fraudulent, wrongful, pesky, smoked, miry, turbid, dishonorable, hopelessly, wild, crack den, deplorable, bemire, violent, scatological, straggly, teasing, sordid, rugged, despicable, clandestine, boggy, vitriolic, ugly, contaminated, snide, unhygienic, bedraggled, illegible, septic, unfair, grim, dreary, soil, bemired, vile, foetid, raw, contaminating, yucky, corruptive, buggy, distasteful, smelly, off-color, improper, crude, afoul, snotty, infected, loathly, fouled, ill-scented, abusive, muddied, broad, corrupting, soiled, unconstitutional, blue, sadly, travel-stained, smoky, sullied, illicit, mucky, shady, filthy, uncleanly, tempestuous, rusty, blackened, wicked, soggy.
- impure (part of speech: adjective)
- dirty (part of speech: verb)
- obscene (part of speech: adjective)
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slovenly (part of speech: adjective)
- neglectful,
- careless,
- slovenly,
- shabby,
- sloppy,
- squalid,
- disheveled,
- messy,
- unkempt
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unclean (part of speech: adjective)
- icky,
- septic,
- foul,
- filthy,
- scatological,
- defiled,
- muddy,
- grimy,
- mucky,
- odious,
- unclean,
- shabby,
- sordid,
- grungy,
- insalubrious,
- impure,
- squalid,
- grubby,
- unhygenic,
- smutty,
- scruffy,
- untidy,
- fetid,
- festering,
- dusty,
- sloppy,
- putrid,
- disgusting,
- unsanitary,
- infectious,
- crummy,
- slovenly,
- murky,
- offensive,
- obscene,
- toxic,
- dingy
Usage examples:
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But a dirty trick like that- well, well!"
- "The Ship of Stars", Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch. -
When Falsehood saw that his former companion sat at the table with the king and was always clean and dressed in good clothes, while he himself was dirty and had to eat in the kitchen, he was very angry and determined to do something to ruin the one whom now he hated so bitterly.
- "Philippine Folk-Tales", Clara Kern Bayliss, Berton L. Maxfield, W. H. Millington, Fletcher Gardner, Laura Watson Benedict. -
If you got any dirty work to do you'll do it yoreself.
- "The Heart of the Range", William Patterson White.