besmirched

ADJECTIVE

defiled

Synonyms

STRONG

cooked desecrated dirty dishonored exposed polluted profaned ravished spoilt tainted trashed vitiated

WEAK

common impure mucked up unclean

Antonyms

STRONG

clean pure

WEAK

cleansed hallowed honorable purified sanctified

ADJECTIVE

grimy

Synonyms

STRONGEST

dingy filthy grubby grungy messy soiled squalid

WEAK

begrimed cruddy foul mucky nasty scuzzy sleazy smeared smutty sooty sordid unclean

Antonyms

STRONGEST

clean neat pure

WEAK

sterile

ADJECTIVE

unclean

Synonyms

STRONG

impure soiled

WEAK

bedraggled befouled blurred common contaminated corrupt decayed defiled desecrated dusty evil feculent fetid filthy foul grimy messy muddy nasty polluted profaned putrescent putrid rancid rank rotten sloppy slovenly smeared smudged sooty sordid spotted squalid stable stained stale stinking sullied tainted tarnished unhealthful vile

Antonyms

STRONG

clean

WEAK

hygienic uncontaminated unpolluted

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No dust or dirt, no speck of grime Besmirched that bright domain; Ten thousand sleuths could comb the town For a grimy spot in vain!

From Time Magazine Archive

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