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dirty
[ dur-tee ]
adjective
dirty laundry.
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- spreading or imparting dirt; soiling:
dirty smoke.
to play a dirty trick on someone.
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a dirty joke.
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- undesirable or unpleasant; thankless:
He left the dirty work for me.
- very unfortunate or regrettable:
That's a dirty shame!
- not fair or sportsmanlike; unscrupulous:
a dirty fighter.
- hostile, insulting, contemptuous, or resentful:
She gave me a dirty look.
He made a dirty crack about the cooking.
- (of a nuclear weapon) producing a relatively large amount of radioactive fallout.
It looks dirty to windward.
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- Informal. obtained through illegal or disreputable means:
dirty money.
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- Slang. using or in possession of narcotics.
- Foreign Exchange. (of currency floats) manipulated, as by a central bank influencing or changing exchange rates ( clean ).
verb (used with or without object)
- to make or become dirty.
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adverb
- Informal. in a mean, unscrupulous, or underhand way:
to play dirty.
- Informal. in a lewd manner:
to talk dirty.
dirty
/ ˈɜːɪ /
adjective
- covered or marked with dirt; filthy
- obscene; salacious
dirty books
- sexually clandestine
a dirty weekend
- causing one to become grimy
a dirty job
- (of a colour) not clear and bright; impure
- unfair; dishonest; unscrupulous; unsporting
- mean; nasty
a dirty cheat
- scandalous; unkind
a dirty rumour
- revealing dislike or anger
a dirty look
- (of weather) rainy or squally; stormy
- (of an aircraft) having projections into the airstream, such as lowered flaps
- (of an explosive device) modified to cause radioactive contamination Compare clean
- be dirty on slang.to be offended by or be hostile towards
- dirty doga despicable person
- dirty linen informal.intimate secrets, esp those that might give rise to gossip
- dirty pool slang.dishonest behaviour
- dirty word
- an obscene word
- something that is regarded with disapproval
federalism is a dirty word
- dirty workunpleasant or illicit activity
- do the dirty on informal.to behave meanly or unkindly towards
verb
- to make or become dirty; stain; soil
Derived Forms
- ˈ徱پ, adverb
- ˈ徱پԱ, noun
Other 51Թ Forms
- 徱i· adverb
- 徱i·Ա noun
Idioms and Phrases
- do (someone) dirty, Slang. to treat unfairly or reprehensibly, as by cheating or slandering.
More idioms and phrases containing dirty
- down and dirty
- wash one's dirty linen in public
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Example Sentences
The Colstrip power plant in Montana, considered one of the dirtiest coal plants in the nation, is among those who have applied for the pass.
“And Scott got there by doing the hard, dirty work a great public defender does.”
Especially for the religious right, which most Republicans are aligned with, the goal is getting women out of the dirty business of politics, so they can focus their energies on tending home and hearth.
Across the street, a UK flag hung over the staircase of a battered building, crumpled and dirty.
Mr Mooser says that while AI may still be a dirty word, their product is "clean" because it pays for its content.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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