dirt·y /ˈdɜrti/
1. make soiled, filthy, or dirty; "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!"
synset: dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire
1. 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"
synset: dirty, soiled, unclean
2. (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"
synset: dirty
antonym: clean, unobjectionable
3. vile; despicable; "a dirty (or lousy) trick"; "a filthy traitor"
4. 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"
synset: dirty, contaminating
antonym: clean, uncontaminating
5. contaminated with infecting organisms; "dirty wounds"; "obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen
synset: dirty, pestiferous
6. (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"
synset: dirty, dingy, muddied, muddy
7. (of a manuscript) defaced with changes; "foul (or dirty) copy"
synset: dirty, foul, marked-up
8. obtained illegally or by improper means; "dirty money"; "ill-gotten gains"
synset: dirty, ill-gotten
9. expressing or revealing hostility or dislike; "dirty looks"
synset: dirty
10. violating accepted standards or rules; "a dirty fighter"; "used foul means to gain power"; "a nasty unsporting serve"; "fined for unsportsmanlike behavior"
synset: cheating, dirty, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike
11. unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign"; "shoddy business practices"
12. unpleasantly stormy; "there's dirty weather in the offing"
synset: dirty
Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
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