Another word for dirty
dirty
modif.
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*.
Obscene
pornographic, smutty, lewd; see lewd 1, 2, ribald.
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
dirty
v.
soil, sully, stain, defile, pollute, foul, encrust, coat, tarnish, spot, smear, daub, blot, blur, make dusty, blacken, smudge, smutch, smoke, muddy, drabble, draggle, heap dirt upon, botch, begrime, bedaub, spoil, speck, sweat up, blotch, spatter, besmear, befoul, splash, debase, corrupt, taint, contaminate, rot, decay, mold, make impure, muck up*.
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Another word for dirty
Covered or stained with or as if with dirt or other impurities:
black, filthy, grimy, grubby, smutty, soiled, unclean, uncleanly. See cleanOffensive to accepted standards of decency:
barnyard, bawdy, broad, coarse, Fescennine, filthy, foul, gross, lewd, nasty, obscene, profane, ribald, scatologic, scatological, scurrilous, smutty, vulgar. (Slang) raunchy. See decentViolently disturbed or agitated, as by storms:
heavy, raging, roiled, roily, rough, rugged, stormy, tempestuous, tumultuous, turbulent, ugly, violent, wild. See calm
To make dirty:
befoul, begrime, besmirch, besoil, black, blacken, defile, smudge, smutch, soil, sully. See cleanTo contaminate the reputation of:
befoul, besmear, besmirch, bespatter, blacken, cloud, denigrate, smear, smudge, smut, soil, spatter, stain, sully, taint, tarnish. Idioms: give a black eye to, sling (or throw) mud on. See attack, clean
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