Dirty

More definitions of "dirty":

• (adj): Vile; despicable.
  Example: "A dirty (or lousy) trick"
  Synonyms: filthy, lousy

• (adj): Soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime.
  Example: "Dirty unswept sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty slums"; "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his dirty feet on the clean sheet"; "mining is a dirty job"; "Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves"
  Synonyms: soiled, unclean

• (adj): Unpleasantly stormy.
  Example: "There's dirty weather in the offing"

• (adj): Unethical or dishonest.
  Example: "Dirty police officers"
  Synonyms: sordid

• (adj): Obtained illegally or by improper means.
  Example: "Dirty money"
  Synonyms: ill-gotten

• (adj): Spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination.
  Example: "The air near the foundry was always dirty"; "the air near the foundry was always dirty"; "a dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout"
  Synonyms: contaminating

• (adj): Contaminated with infecting organisms.
  Example: "Dirty wounds"
  Synonyms: contaminated, infected, pestiferous

• (adj): Expressing or revealing hostility or dislike.
  Example: "Dirty looks"

• (adj): Violating accepted standards or rules.
  Example: "A dirty fighter"
  Synonyms: cheating, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike

• (adj): (of a manuscript) defaced with changes.
  Synonyms: foul, marked-up

• (verb): Make soiled, filthy, or dirty.
  Synonyms: soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire

• (adj): (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency.
  Example: "Dirty words"; "a dirty old man"; "dirty books and movies"; "boys telling dirty jokes"; "has a dirty mouth"

Famous quotes containing the word dirty:

“The change of Philomel, by the barbarous king
So rudely forced: yet there the nightingale
Filled all the desert with inviolable voice
And still she cried, and still the world pursues,
“Jug Jug” to dirty ears.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

“Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That’s their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.”
—Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)

“A dirty house in a gutted world,
A tatter of shadows peaked to white,
Smeared with the gold of the opulent sun.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)