cheap and dirty
Example Sentences
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Every word intimidates, but when placed together, they become evocative poetry, an unforgettable incantation of cheap and dirty horror.
From New York Times • Aug. 28, 2017
Her face is mottled with wrath, her bandeaux of hair are disarranged upon her forehead, the ornaments of her cap, cheap, and dirty, and numerous, only give her a wilder appearance.
From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by Thackeray, William Makepeace
By 1786, under the universal depression and want of confidence, all trade had well-nigh stopped, and political quackery, with its cheap and dirty remedies, had full control of the field.
From The Critical Period of American History by Fiske, John
They live in cheap and dirty streets that smell bad; their houses are in the same style, infected with a strong odor of cabbage, onions, washing-day, old dinners, and other merely sublunary smells.
From The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages by Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor)
It was a cheap and dirty tenement house.
From Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays Rescuing the Runaways by Carr, Annie Roe
