dirtyadjective
uk/ˈdɜː.ti/us/ˈdɝː.t̬i/dirty adjective (NOT CLEAN)
A2 not clean:
Her face was dirty and tear-stained.
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- It amazes me how you can put up with living in such a dirty house.
- There were dirty marks on her trousers where she had wiped her hands.
- You're treading muck into the carpet with your dirty shoes!
- You'd better roll your sleeves up or you'll get them dirty.
- Just put the dirty dishes in the washing-up bowl, and I'll do them later.
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Dirty & untidy
- -stained
- all over the place idiom
- besmeared
- bespattered
- bloodstained
- cat
- inky
- manky
- messy
- mucky
- ragged
- ragtag
- squalid
- streaky
- tangle
- tangled
- tarnish
- tousled
- unclean
- unkempt
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dirty adjective (NOT HONEST)
informal unfair, dishonest, or unkind:
She played a dirty trick on me by telling me Diane was having a party when she wasn't.
That's a dirty lie!
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Dishonest
- bad faith
- be rotten to the core idiom
- be up to no good idiom
- bent
- cowboy
- dubious
- false
- finagle
- fishy
- fly-by-night
- malfeasance
- mendacious
- misleading
- perjure
- rich
- underhand
- unreliable
- unscrupulous
- unsporting
- weasel
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dirty adjective (NOT POLITE)
informal used to describe something that is connected with sex, in a way that many people think is offensive:
a dirty magazine/movie/joke
You have a really dirty mind!
dirty adjective (UNHEALTHY)
UK used to refer to unhealthy food such as burgers served in fashionable or expensive restaurants:
We relish the forbidden, greasy pleasures of dirty food: burgers, ribs, and fried chicken.
Idiom(s)
do sb's dirty work
do the dirty on sb
give sb a dirty look
do the dirty work
dirtyadverb
uk/ˈdɜː.ti/us/ˈdɝː.t̬i/dirty great/big
UK informal very great/big:
The old power station's nothing but a dirty great blot on the landscape.
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Enormous
- a whale of a idiom
- almighty
- astronomical
- astronomically
- behemoth
- huge
- humungous
- immeasurable
- immense
- immensity
- mountainous
- overwhelming
- precipitous
- prodigious
- sth knows no bounds idiom
- stratospheric
- terrific
- thumping
- walloping
- yawning
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Idiom(s)
play dirty
dirtyverb [ T ]
uk/ˈdɜː.ti/us/ˈdɝː.t̬i/to make something dirty:
Don't sit on the floor - you might dirty your dress.
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Making things dirty & untidy
- blacken
- blot
- clutter
- contaminate
- defile
- disarrange
- foul
- mess
- mess sth up
- mix
- mix sth up
- muddle
- muddle sth up
- muss
- pollute
- polluter
- soil
- stain
- sully
- tarnish
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Idiom(s)
dirty your hands