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| ADJECTIVE | 1 | dirty, soiled, unclean | Soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime |
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| 2 | dirty | (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency | |
| 3 | dirty, filthy, lousy | Vile | |
| 4 | dirty, contaminating | Spreading pollution or contamination | |
| 5 | dirty, contaminated, pestiferous | Contaminated with infecting organisms | |
| 6 | dirty, dingy, muddied, muddy | (of color) discolored by impurities | |
| 7 | dirty, foul, marked-up | (of a manuscript) defaced with changes | |
| 8 | dirty, ill-gotten | Obtained illegally or by improper means | |
| 9 | dirty | Expressing or revealing hostility or dislike | |
| 10 | dirty, cheating, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike | Violating accepted standards or rules | |
| 11 | dirty, sordid | Unethical or dishonest | |
| 12 | dirty | Unpleasantly stormy | |
| VERB | 1 | dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire | Make soiled, filthy, or dirty |
| Sounds | der'tiy |
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| Rhymes | ability, abnormality, absentee, and 622 more rhymes in tiy... |
| Meaning | Soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime. |
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| Examples | "dirty unswept sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty slums"; "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his dirty feet on the clean sheet"; "mining is a dirty job"; "Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves" |
| Synonyms | soiled, unclean |
| Contrary | clean |
| Similar | Augean; bedraggled, draggled; befouled, fouled; begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy; bespattered, spattered, besplashed, splashed; black, smutty; buggy; cobwebby; dirty-faced; dusty, dust-covered; fecal, faecal, feculent; filthy, foul, nasty; flyblown, squalid, sordid; greasy, oily; lousy; maculate; mucky, muddy; ratty; scummy; smudgy; snotty, snot-nosed; sooty; travel-soiled, travel-stained; uncleanly; unswept; unwashed |
| See also | unclean, impure; untidy |
| Attribute of | cleanness |
| Nouns | dirt; dirtiness |
| Adverbs | dirtily |
| Meaning | (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency. |
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| Examples | "dirty words"; "a dirty old man"; "dirty books and movies"; "boys telling dirty jokes"; "has a dirty mouth" |
| Contrary | clean, unobjectionable |
| Similar | bawdy, off-color, ribald; blasphemous, blue, profane; dirty-minded; filthy, foul, nasty, smutty; foul-mouthed, foul-spoken; lewd, obscene, raunchy, salacious; scabrous; scatological |
| See also | indecent |
| Nouns | dirtiness |
| Meaning | Vile. Despicable. |
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| Examples | "a dirty (or lousy) trick" |
| Synonyms | filthy, lousy |
| Similar to | nasty, awful |
| Meaning | Spreading pollution or contamination. Especially radioactive contamination. |
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| Examples | "the air near the foundry was always dirty"; "a dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout" |
| Synonyms | contaminating |
| Contrary | clean, uncontaminating |
| Nouns | dirtiness; dirt |
| Meaning | Contaminated with infecting organisms. |
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| Examples | "dirty wounds" |
| Synonyms | contaminated, pestiferous |
| Similar to | septic, infected |
| Nouns | dirtiness |
| Meaning | (of color) discolored by impurities. Not bright and clear. |
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| Examples | "dirty" is often used in combination; "a dirty (or dingy) white"; "dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair" |
| Synonyms | dingy, muddied, muddy |
| Similar to | impure |
| Meaning | (of a manuscript) defaced with changes. |
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| Examples | "foul (or dirty) copy" |
| Synonyms | foul, marked-up |
| Similar to | illegible |
| Meaning | Obtained illegally or by improper means. |
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| Examples | "dirty money" |
| Synonyms | ill-gotten |
| Similar to | illegal |
| Meaning | Expressing or revealing hostility or dislike. |
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| Examples | "dirty looks" |
| Similar to | hostile |
| Meaning | Violating accepted standards or rules. |
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| Examples | "a dirty fighter" |
| Synonyms | cheating, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike |
| Similar to | unfair, unjust |
| Meaning | Unethical or dishonest. |
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| Examples | "dirty police officers" |
| Synonyms | sordid |
| Similar to | corrupt |
| Meaning | Unpleasantly stormy. |
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| Examples | "there's dirty weather in the offing" |
| Similar to | stormy |
| Meaning | Make soiled, filthy, or dirty. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
| Synonyms | soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire |
| Contrary | clean, make clean |
| Broader | change, alter, modify |
| Narrower | foul; pollute, foul, contaminate; smear; slime; muddy, muddy up; splash; mire, muck, mud, muck up; crock; blemish, spot |
| Nouns | dirtying |
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