Synonyms for dirty

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1. Containing dirt

   soiled, unclean, filthy, grimy, unsanitary, unhygienic, polluted, foul, nasty, slovenly, dusty, undusted, messy, squalid, sloppy, untidy, lousy, disheveled, uncombed, unsightly, slatternly, bedraggled, disarrayed, straggly, unwashed, unkempt, stained, tarnished, spotted, smudged, fouled, infected, greasy, spattered, smutty, smutted, flyspecked, muddy, mucky, sooty, smoky, smoked, slimy, rusty, murky, dingy, unlaundered, unswept, unsalable, unpolished, crummy*, scrubby*, icky*, grubby*, raunchy*, scuzzy*, yucky*, scummy*.

   Antonyms clean, sanitary, spotless, tidy.

2. Obscene

   pornographic, smutty, lewd; see lewd 1, 2, ribald.

3. Nasty

   mean, contemptible, disagreeable; see mean 1, 3, ruthless 1.

dirty is applied to that which is covered or filled with any kind of dirt and is the broadest of these terms a dirty face, a dirty room; ?soiled generally suggests the presence of superficial dirt in an amount sufficient to impair cleanness or freshness a soiled shirt; grimy suggests soot or granular dirt deposited on or ingrained in a surface a miner with a grimy face; filthy is applied to that which is disgustingly dirty filthy as a pigpen; foul implies extreme filth that is grossly offensive or loathsome because of its stench, putridity, or corruption foul air

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