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Dirty   /dˈərti/   Listen
adjective
Dirty  adj.  (compar. dirtier; superl. dirtiest)  
1.
Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white.
2.
Sullied; clouded; applied to color.
3.
Sordid; base; groveling; as, a dirty fellow. "The creature's at his dirty work again."
4.
Sleety; gusty; stormy; as, dirty weather. "Storms of wind, clouds of dust, an angry, dirty sea."
Synonyms: Nasty; filthy; foul. See Nasty.


verb
Dirty  v. t.  (past & past part. dirtied; pres. part. dirtying)  
1.
To foul; to make filthy; to soil; as, to dirty the clothes or hands.
2.
To tarnish; to sully; to scandalize; said of reputation, character, etc.





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"Dirty" Quotes from Famous Books



... over-roasted pork." Once within the enclosure he saw all sorts of remarkable things, including the actors, "strutting round their balconies in their tinsey robes and golden leather buskins;" the rope-dancers, and the dirty eating-places, where "cooks stood dripping at their doors, like their roasted swine's flesh." Ward also looked on at several comedies, or "droles," being enacted in the grounds, and, after coming to the conclusion that they were like "State fireworks," and ...
— The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield • Edward Robins
... for a few minutes, for he was roused by a little choking sound of sobbing. He opened his eyes—he was awake at once—he looked across at Esther. She was lying huddled up, with her face turned against the dirty cushions of the carriage, sobbing her ...
— The Phantom Lover • Ruby M. Ayres
... has to remark how, in these last scenes, every shred of action and every random word aimed at Jesus for the purpose of injuring and dishonouring Him so turned, instead, to honour, that in our eyes, now looking back, it shines on Him like a star. As a fire catches the lump of dirty coal or clot of filth that is flung into it, and converts it into a mass of light, so at this time there was that about Christ which transmuted the very insults hurled at Him into honours and charged even ...
— The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ - A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion • James Stalker
... the courts of the Castle, the graveyards of the churches, and private gardens. In spite of these and the passage of a tidal river through the city, it cannot be denied that the inhabitants of our mediaeval city lived in rather dirty ...
— Life in a Medival City - Illustrated by York in the XVth Century • Edwin Benson
... the question," she said at last with indifference. "I can defend myself, but I refuse to do any dirty work for you—or for France. You have other means at your disposal; you must use ...
— The Scarlet Pimpernel • Baroness Orczy


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