dirty trick | an unkind or aggressive trick |
dirty war | an offensive conducted by secret police or the military of a regime against revolutionary and terrorist insurgents and marked by the use of kidnapping and torture and murder with civilians often being the victims, thousands of people disappeared and were killed during Argentina's dirty war in the late s |
dirty pool | conduct that is unfair or unethical or unsportsmanlike |
dirty tricks | underhand commercial or political behavior designed to discredit an opponent |
dirty bomb | an atom bomb that leaves considerable radioactive contamination |
dirty linen dirty laundry | personal matters that could be embarrassing if made public |
dirty word | a word that is considered to be unmentionable, `failure' is a dirty word to him |
dirty joke dirty story blue joke blue story | an indelicate joke |
obscenity smut vulgarism filth dirty word | an offensive or indecent word or phrase |
dirty old man | a middle-aged man with lecherous inclinations |
d rotter dirty dog rat skunk stinker stinkpot bum puke crumb lowlife scum bag so-and-so git | a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible, only a rotter would do that, kill the rat, throw the bum out, you cowardly little pukes!, the British call a contemptible person a `git' |
loot booty pillage plunder prize swag dirty money | goods or money obtained illegally |
dirty soil begrime grime colly bemire | make soiled, filthy, or dirty, don't soil your clothes when you play outside! |
dirty | unpleasantly stormy, there's dirty weather in the offing |
dirty soiled unclean | soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime, dirty unswept sidewalks, a child in dirty overalls, dirty slums, piles of dirty dishes, put his dirty feet on the clean sheet, wore an unclean shirt, mining is a dirty job, Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves |
dirty-faced | having a dirty face, a crowd of dirty-faced ragamuffins surrounded him |
dirty | (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency, dirty words, a dirty old man, dirty books and movies, boys telling dirty jokes, has a dirty mouth |
dirty-minded | having lewd thoughts |
dirty contaminating | spreading pollution or contamination, especially radioactive contamination, the air near the foundry was always dirty, a dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout |
dirty sordid | unethical or dishonest, dirty police officers, a sordid political campaign |
cheating(a) dirty foul unsporting unsportsmanlike | violating accepted standards or rules, a dirty fighter, used foul means to gain power, a nasty unsporting serve, fined for unsportsmanlike behavior |
dirty | expressing or revealing hostility or dislike, dirty looks |
dirty ill-gotten | obtained illegally or by improper means, dirty money, ill-gotten gains |
dirty foul marked-up | (of a manuscript) defaced with changes, foul (or dirty) copy |
dirty filthy lousy | vile, despicable, a dirty (or lousy) trick, a filthy traitor |
dirty dingy muddied muddy | (of color) discolored by impurities, not bright and clear, dirty is often used in combination, a dirty (or dingy) white, the muddied grey of the sea, muddy colors, dirty-green walls, dirty-blonde hair |
dirty pestiferous | contaminated with infecting organisms, dirty wounds, obliged to go into infected rooms- Jane Austen |