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dirty
adjective as in soiled, unclean
adjective as in obscene, pornographic
adjective as in dishonest
Strongest match
Weak matches
below the belt, deceitful, double-dealing, shabby, shady, shifty, sneaky, sordid, underhanded, unethical, unscrupulous, untruthful
Example Sentences
A dirty secret about pageants is that behind the smiles and the ogling, a great part of their fuel is female ambition.
“It smells like dirty feet,” she told her colleague.
But beyond George Carlin’s seven dirty words, I can think of at least a dozen other words—mostly adolescent playground insults—that we’re all forced to think twice before saying.
"There is a buoyant car culture in London - a street culture, a classic culture, a super car, hyper car culture, it's all there... I just think the concept of the automotive is considered dirty."
"Try to live as an asylum seeker only for one day - the mattresses are dirty, the toilets, everything is dirty, broken."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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