| 单词 | dirty |
| 释义 | dirty —dirtily, adv. —dirtiness, n. /derr"tee/, adj., dirtier, dirtiest, v. , dirtied, dirtying, adv. adj. 1. soiled with dirt; foul; unclean: dirty laundry. 2. spreading or imparting dirt; soiling: dirty smoke. 3. vile; mean; sordid; contemptible: to play a dirty trick on someone. 4. obscene; pornographic; lewd: a dirty joke. 5. undesirable or unpleasant; thankless: He left the dirty work for me. 6. very unfortunate or regrettable: That's a dirty shame! 7. not fair or sportsmanlike; unscrupulous: a dirty fighter. 8. hostile, insulting, contemptuous, or resentful: She gave me a dirty look. He made a dirty crack about the cooking. 9. (of a nuclear weapon) producing a relatively large amount of radioactive fallout. 10. (of the weather) stormy; squally: It looks dirty to windward. 11. Informal. obtained through illegal or disreputable means: dirty money. 12. appearing as if soiled; dark-colored; dingy; murky. 13. Slang. using or in possession of narcotics. 14. Foreign Exchange. (of currency floats) manipulated, as by a central bank influencing or changing exchange rates (opposed to clean). 15. do (someone) dirty, Slang. to treat unfairly or reprehensibly, as by cheating or slandering. v.t. , v.i. 16. to make or become dirty. adv. 17. Informal. in a mean, unscrupulous, or underhand way: to play dirty. 18. Informal. in a lewd manner: to talk dirty. [1520-30; DIRT + -Y1] Syn. 1. grimy, defiled. DIRTY, FILTHY, FOUL, SQUALID refer to that which is not clean. DIRTY is applied to that which is filled or covered with dirt so that it is unclean or defiled: dirty clothes. FILTHY is an emphatic word suggesting something that is excessively soiled or dirty: filthy streets. Both DIRTY and FILTHY can refer to obscenity: a dirty mind, a filthy novel. FOUL implies an uncleanness that is grossly offensive to the senses: a foul odor. SQUALID, applied usually to dwellings or surroundings, implies dirtiness that results from the slovenly indifference often associated with poverty: a squalid tenement. 3. base, vulgar, low, shabby, groveling. 4. nasty, lascivious, lecherous. 10. rainy, foul, sloppy, disagreeable, nasty. 12. dull, dark, sullied, clouded. 16. soil, befoul, sully. |
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