dirty

1. Soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime (synset 300420808)
   "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"
   also: untidy - not neat and tidy
   tells us about: cleanness - the state of being clean; without dirt or other impurities
   similar 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
   same as: soiled, unclean
2. (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency (synset 300425889)
   "dirty words"; "a dirty old man"; "dirty books and movies"; "boys telling dirty jokes"; "has a dirty mouth"
   also: indecent - offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters
   similar 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
3. Vile;
   Despicable (synset 301591882)
   "a dirty (or lousy) trick"; "a filthy traitor"
   similar to: awful, nasty - offensive or even (of persons) malicious
   same as: filthy, lousy
4. Spreading pollution or contamination;
   Especially radioactive contamination (synset 300428105)
   "the air near the foundry was always dirty"; "a dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout"
   same as: contaminating
5. Contaminated with infecting organisms (synset 302121576)
   "dirty wounds"; "obliged to go into infected rooms"
   similar to: infected, septic - containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms
   same as: pestiferous
6. (of color) discolored by impurities;
   Not bright and clear (synset 301915458)
   "dirty"; "a dirty (or dingy) white"; "the muddied grey of the sea"; "muddy colors"; "dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair"
   similar to: impure - combined with extraneous elements
   same as: dingy, muddied, muddy
7. (of a manuscript) defaced with changes (synset 301408416)
   "foul (or dirty) copy"
   similar to: illegible - (of handwriting, print, etc.) not legible
   same as: foul, marked-up
8. Obtained illegally or by improper means (synset 301406016)
   "dirty money"; "ill-gotten gains"
   similar to: illegal - prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules
   same as: ill-gotten
9. Expressing or revealing hostility or dislike (synset 301248652)
   "dirty looks"
   similar to: hostile - characterized by enmity or ill will
10. Violating accepted standards or rules (synset 300960933)
    "a dirty fighter"; "used foul means to gain power"; "a nasty unsporting serve"; "fined for unsportsmanlike behavior"
    similar to: unfair, unjust - not fair; marked by injustice or partiality or deception
    same as: cheating, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike
11. Unethical or dishonest (synset 300624475)
    "dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign"; "shoddy business practices"
    similar to: corrupt - lacking in integrity
    same as: shoddy, sordid
12. Unpleasantly stormy (synset 300306389)
    "there's dirty weather in the offing"
    similar to: stormy - (especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion

1. Make soiled, filthy, or dirty (synset 201536935)
   "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!"
   is a type of: alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
   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
   same as: begrime, bemire, colly, grime, soil

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