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dirty

adjective as in dishonest

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That could prevent dirty tricks or an “October surprise” and give watchdogs time to fact-check statements.

The airlines provide barf bags, but the dirty secret is that people often don’t use them.

From Fortune

If you want to hurt him because you don’t like him and you want to exploit the connection because he has more cash than you, I guess you can do that, but it feels dirty.

From Ozy

Those that arrive damaged or dirty may never return to inventory.

From Quartz

That plant is one of the dirtiest in Texas, both in terms of climate and air quality impacts, according to a Rice University study.

From Quartz

She is the author of Dirty Entanglements: Corruption, Crime and Terrorism (Cambridge University Press).

I was so relieved, until I thought about my dirty pantyhose hanging on the shower at home.

If only Sulzberger had managed to keep a zipped upper lip while leaving the dirty work to anonymous underlings.

Not one Argentine Jesuit lost his life during the dirty war, and he managed to save dozens of people.

As Americans, we still have a right to air both our dirty laundry and our R-Rated films.

I'd have enjoyed punching his proud head, for all that; it was a dirty way to serve a man who had done his level best.

Shopkeepers not only occupied both sides of the crowded streets, but half their wares were exposed in and over the dirty gutters.

And in the incredibly small and incredibly dirty fastness of the stationmaster, they indeed found a Bradshaw.

What if his father insisted upon his going to London, and doing any other dirty work which these fellows chose to put upon him?

This water, although of a dirty and thick appearance, is said to possess the valuable quality of resisting putridity for years.

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On this page you'll find 267 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dirty, such as: contaminated, crummy, disheveled, dusty, filthy, and greasy.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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