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down and dirtyadjective North American informal1Highly competitive or unprincipled: he’s willing to get down and dirty, slinging mud at will and knowing that some of it will stick...- The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has been calling on energy trading corporations to confess, under oath, whether they have been doing any of the down-and-dirty deals that the devilish company got caught making.
- New Orleans was a failure of down-and-dirty management as much or more than a failure of sublime leadership.
- I still think the WGA is facing a down-and-dirty round of bargaining which could lead to either a long, destructive strike or a short, destructive collapse.
2Earthy, direct, and explicit: I won’t bore you with the down-and-dirty details...- There are many of us who like to think we are too high-minded for reality television and the down-and-dirty roustabout of confessional chat shows.
- ‘The Internet's not a novelty, but a useful tool that can do down-and-dirty work,’ says his chief Internet strategist.
- At a time when Hollywood actresses sometimes seemed more interested in making sure they were filmed from their best side than achieving the down-and-dirty realism that a part might need, Bette Davis was an exception.
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