Hyphenation of dirty

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dirty

Definitions of dirty:

1.
Make soiled, filthy, or dirty
Don't soil your clothes when you play outside!
2.
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
3.
(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
4.
Vile
Despicable A dirty (or lousy) trick A filthy traitor
5.
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
6.
Contaminated with infecting organisms
Dirty wounds Obliged to go into infected rooms- Jane Austen
7.
(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
8.
(of a manuscript) defaced with changes
Foul (or dirty) copy
9.
Obtained illegally or by improper means
Dirty money Ill-gotten gains
10.
Expressing or revealing hostility or dislike
Dirty looks
11.
Violating accepted standards or rules
A dirty fighter Used foul means to gain power A nasty unsporting serve Fined for unsportsmanlike behavior
12.
Unethical or dishonest
Dirty police officers A sordid political campaign
13.
Unpleasantly stormy
There's dirty weather in the offing

Synonyms of dirty:

adj dirty, soiled, unclean, bedraggled, draggled, befouled, fouled, begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy, bespattered, spattered, besplashed, splashed, black, buggy, dirty-faced, dusty, dust-covered, fecal, faecal, feculent, filthy, foul, nasty, flyblown, squalid, sordid, greasy, oily, lousy, mucky, muddy, scummy, smeared, smirched, smudged, smudgy, snotty, snot-nosed, travel-soiled, travel-stained, unswept, unwashed, maculate, unclean, impure, untidy
adj dirty, bawdy, off-color, ribald, dirty-minded, filthy, foul, nasty, smutty, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, lewd, obscene, raunchy, salacious, scabrous, scatological, blasphemous, blue, profane, indecent
adj filthy, lousy, nasty, awful
adj dirty, contaminating
adj contaminated, infected, pestiferous, septic
adj dingy, muddied, muddy, impure
adj foul, marked-up, illegible
adj ill-gotten, illegal
adj hostile
adj cheating, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike, unfair, unjust
adj sordid, corrupt
adj stormy
verb soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire, change, alter, modify

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