dirty
Adjective
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also: untidy - not neat and tidytells us about: cleanness - the state of being clean; without dirt or other impuritiessimilar to:
- augean - extremely filthy from long neglect
- bedraggled, draggled - limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud
- befouled, fouled - made dirty or foul
- begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy - thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot
- black, smutty - soiled with dirt or soot
- buggy - infested with bugs
- cobwebby - covered with cobwebs
- dirty-faced - having a dirty face
- feculent - foul with waste matter
- filthy, foul, nasty - disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter
- flyblown, sordid, squalid - foul and run-down and repulsive
- greasy, oily - smeared or soiled with grease or oil
- lousy - infested with lice
- maculate - spotted or blotched
- mucky, muddy - dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck
- ratty - dirty and infested with rats
- scummy - covered with scum
- smudgy - smeared with something that soils or stains; these words are often used in combination
- snot-nosed, snotty - dirty with nasal discharge
- sooty - covered with or as if with soot
- travel-soiled, travel-stained - soiled from travel
- uncleanly - habitually unclean
- unswept - not having been swept
- unwashed - not cleaned with or as if with soap and water
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also: indecent - offensive to good taste especially in sexual matterssimilar to:
- bawdy, off-color, ribald - humorously vulgar
- blasphemous, blue, profane - characterized by profanity or cursing
- dirty-minded - having lewd thoughts
- cruddy, filthy, foul, nasty, smutty - characterized by obscenity
- foul-mouthed, foul-spoken - using foul or obscene language
- lewd, obscene, raunchy, salacious - suggestive of or tending to moral looseness
- scabrous - dealing with salacious or indecent material
- scatological - dealing pruriently with excrement and excretory functions
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same as: contaminating
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same as: pestiferous
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similar to: impure - combined with extraneous elements
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similar to: illegible - (of handwriting, print, etc.) not legible
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similar to: illegal - prohibited by law or by official or accepted rulessame as: ill-gotten
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similar to: hostile - characterized by enmity or ill will
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similar to: corrupt - lacking in integrity
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similar to: stormy - (especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion
Verb
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subtypes:
- foul - make unclean
- contaminate, foul, pollute - make impure
- smear - stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance
- slime - cover or stain with slime
- muddy, muddy up - dirty with mud
- splash - soil or stain with a splashed liquid
- mire, muck, muck up, mud - soil with mud, muck, or mire
- crock - soil with or as with crock
- blemish, spot - mar or impair with a flaw
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