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dirty English

Meaning dirty meaning

What does dirty mean?
Definitions in simple English

dirty Adjective

— If something is dirty, it has dirt on it, or it is not clean. After playing outside all day, her hands were all dirty. You shouldn't say damn, shit, and other dirty words.

dirty

— adjective (= soiled, unclean) 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 — adjective (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 — adjective (= filthy, lousy) vile; despicable a dirty (or lousy) trick a filthy traitor — adjective contaminated with infecting organisms dirty wounds obliged to go into infected rooms — Jane Austen — adjective (= foul) (of a manuscript) defaced with changes foul (or dirty) copy — adjective (= ill-gotten) obtained illegally or by improper means dirty money ill-gotten gains — adjective expressing or revealing hostility or dislike dirty looks — adjective 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 — adjective unpleasantly stormy there's dirty weather in the offing — adjective (= sordid) unethical or dishonest dirty police officers a sordid political campaign — verb (= soil) make soiled, filthy, or dirty don't soil your clothes when you play outside! — adjective (= dingy, muddied, muddy) (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; is often used in combination dirty a dirty (or dingy) white the muddied grey of the sea muddy colors dirty-green walls dirty-blonde hair — adjective (= foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike) violating accepted standards or rules a dirty fighter used foul means to gain power a nasty unsporting serve fined for unsportsmanlike behavior

Synonyms dirty synonyms

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dirty English » English

filthy unclean soiled foul soil muddy impure nasty stain grimy stained grubby bad smutty polluted messy defile untidy sordid vile turbid squalid obscene mean ugly indecent get dirty black mucky miry make dirty sully smirch slovenly pollute lewd greasy dishonest disgusting dingy contaminate vulgar unhygienic smudgy not clean dusty dirt begrime become dirty base

Topics dirty topics

What do people use dirty to talk about?
Daily life Cleaning

Wash clothes
Person Life Sexual relations

Sexual immorality
Universe, creation World Substance, matter

Soil, dirt
Universe, creation Water

Water quality
Language and thought Communication Foolish talk

Obscenity
Daily life Adornment

Care for the teeth
Daily life Adornment

Care for the fingernails
Universe, creation Sky

Weather
Person Sense, perceive See

Look
Language and thought Think Opinion

Approve of something
Daily life Cleaning

Clean, dirty

Conjugation dirty conjugation

How do you conjugate dirty?

dirty · verb

Examples dirty examples

How do I use dirty in a sentence?

Simple sentences

He threw mud at me and made me dirty.
He washed her dirty hands before the meal.
She washed her dirty hands before the meal.
Mother was afraid I would get dirty.
She has a dirty face.
He tells dirty jokes to children.
Tom put the dirty dishes in the sink.
Tom and Mary were both dirty.
The car isn't clean but dirty.
I am not clean but dirty. I have been repairing a car.
I won't do their dirty work for them.
Why is your dog so dirty?
Never rub the eyes when the hands are dirty.
You may take the book home so long as you don't get it dirty.
I saw a dirty dog coming into the garden.
Don't wash your dirty linen in public.
The dirty plates in the restaurant disgusted us.
Tom always leaves his bicycle dirty.
They shone like stars in the dark, dirty building.
It's a hard, dirty job.
The boy got his hands dirty.
Don't bring that dirty dog through the kitchen.
The suitcase contained nothing but dirty clothes.
These trousers are dirty.
Don't handle my books with dirty hands.
Tony looked down at his dirty old shoes.
The magazine revealed all his dirty secrets.
The dirty boy turned out to be a prince in disguise.
These clothes are dirty and need washing.
The child is dirty.
That shirt is very dirty. It needs washing before you go to school.

Movie subtitles

So then I'm going front, back, front, back. and it's all dirty in the back, so when I move it to the front, then that gets all dirty.
Councilman Dreyfuss is airing out all of Mayor Perry's dirty laundry.
Then while Janelle was doing your dirty work staging your death.
Another dirty bastard for the road?
Was he drinking dirty bastards too?
If that sounded dirty, I didn't mean it to.
The dirty, barefoot Britney from the gas-station bathroom.
I can play dirty.
Two more years have passed without any news from Ivan and as Lukeria believes him to be forever missing, she forces Anna to do the dirty works.
You're getting it all dirty.
It's dirty and painful to die for your country.
All you've got in the world is a dirty deck of cards, and a crooked one at that.
There he is, the dirty double-crosser.
Should we let these dirty bandits order us what to do and want not to do?
I hate a dirty joke, unless it's told by someone who knows how to tell it.
All you got in the world is a dirty deck of cards and a crooked one at that.
You're yellow, you dirty.
That dirty, low, sneaking.
Why, you dirty, thieving old hag, I'll.
I'm coming, and I'm gonna put one in your dirty hide for every lying crack that you made about me, see?
Call the papers and tell them that, you rotten, dirty, lying copper!
You've been getting nothing but dirty breaks.
They squealed on us, the dirty rats.
The dirty double-crosser.
Why, that dirty, no-good, yellow-bellied stool.
Why, you dirty, double-crossing.
Frankie's team just played dirty.
They play dirty, which is why sometimes it seems like it's damned near impossible for rule-abiding kids to win.
Dirty tricks.
What a dirty job!
Dirty work!
Just you wait, dirty brute!
Well, of all the dirty low-down tricks.
The dirty tramp.
You're nothing but a dirty little blackmailer.
Why, the dirty crooks!

News and current affairs

As the two sides collide, the country suffers: the outcome of the water war has meant that the poor still use the same dirty and expensive water, while the result of the gas war could mean that we remain without new export revenues.
And they are environmentally dirty to boot.
Political leaders in EU capitals and the US may be well aware of China's global economic importance, but the widespread public perception is that its factories are dirty and environmentally harmful.
China's rulers rarely wash their dirty linen in public.
Bo's ex-police chief, who is said to have done the dirty work, embarrassed the Party by fleeing to the US consulate in Chengdu in February, after he fell out with his boss.
Our generation's most pressing challenge is to convert the world's dirty and carbon-based energy systems and infrastructure into clean, smart, and efficient systems for the twenty-first century.
If the plebiscite victory emboldens him and his allies to step up their tactics of judicial dirty tricks and media manipulation - used to great effect in recent years - the prospects for Turkey are bleak.
Perhaps the dirty tricks are largely defensive, meant to ensure that the old guard never threatens the AKP's existence again.
If Bill Gates really believes that the Internet should be a liberating force, he should ensure that Microsoft does not do the dirty work of China's government.
Georgia's democracy exists in its head, but not yet in its body: citizens still spurn politics as a dirty pursuit, abandoning the ground to those who should have been retired long ago.
They have subsidized Chinese jobs and other European countries' reliance on dirty energy sources.
But nobody sees fit to reveal the agreement's dirty little secret: it will do next to no good, and again at very high cost.
These figures suggest that the EIB may simply find dirty energy projects more familiar, easier to access, and more profitable.
The EU would then have little need to rely on dirty-energy imports from politically unstable parts of the world.
US soldiers have repeatedly been implicated in war crimes; and Jeremy Scahill's book Dirty Wars, which details targeted assassinations by the US around the world, has hit bookstores.
They are placing their faith in their ability to wash their own dirty laundry and drive economic, social, and political change from the top down.
Shale-gas wells deplete far more rapidly than conventional fields do. And they are environmentally dirty to boot.
We must bid farewell to national egoisms, vested interests, dirty tricks, and assumed certainties.
I remember when Amazon was known only for books, and when dirty taxis or high-priced limousines were the only alternative to public transport or my own car.
Here, we run into a dirty little secret of world politics: many commentators on international politics do not know much about economics or economic policy.
There is also a suspicion that dirty capitalist pigs want to profit from the sale of opiate substitutes, regardless of whether they work.
On one hand, stimulus had become a dirty word - even within the Obama administration - well before the Republicans' mid-term election victory ruled out another round altogether.
Even in the United States, one of the few places where economic liberalization is not a dirty word, President George W. Bush has his own frustrations.
Getting your hands dirty is what most people in rich countries no longer want to do.
The problem is that no Latin American government, with the exception of Panama, wants to dirty its hands.
She is part of a new generation of urban Africans committed to integrating farmers and markets - and to getting their hands dirty.
For the West cannot buy economic reform, and Russia cannot import reformers. Russians must do the dirty work themselves.

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