| 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 |
Atlantic ridley
bastard ridley
bastard turtle
Lepidochelys kempii | grey sea turtle of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of North America |
bastard wing
alula
spurious wing | tuft of small stiff feathers on the first digit of a bird's wing |
bastard
mongrel | derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine, something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin, the architecture was a kind of bastard suggesting Gothic but not true Gothic |
| dirty bomb | an atom bomb that leaves considerable radioactive contamination |
dirty linen
dirty laundry | personal matters that could be embarrassing if made public |
half title
bastard title | a first page of some books displaying only the title of the book |
| 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 |
slang
cant
jargon
lingo
argot
patois vernacular | a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves), they don't speak our lingo |
| rhyming slang | slang that replaces words with rhyming words or expressions and then typically omits the rhyming component, Cockney rhyming slang |
slang slang expression
slang term | informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions, often vituperative or vulgar, their speech was full of slang expressions |
b asshole
bastard
cocksucker
dickhead
shit
mother fucker
motherfucker
prick
whoreson son of a bitch
SOB | insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous |
bastard by-blow
love child
illegitimate child
illegitimate
whoreson | the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents |
| 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' |
common yellowwood
bastard yellowwood
Afrocarpus falcata | medium-sized tree of South Africa |
bastard feverfew
Parthenium hysterophorus | tropical American annual weed with small radiate heads of white flowers, adventive in southern United States |
chaffweed
bastard pimpernel
false pimpernel | weedy plant having short dry chafflike leaves |
| false indigo bastard indigo Amorpha californica | an erect to spreading hairy shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States having racemes of red to indigo flowers |
| false indigo bastard indigo Amorpha fruticosa | dense shrub of moist riverbanks and flood plains of the eastern United States having attractive fragrant foliage and dense racemes of dark purple flowers |
bastard indigo
Tephrosia purpurea | East Indian shrub |
bastard lignum vitae
Guaiacum sanctum | small evergreen tree of the southern United States and West Indies a source of lignum vitae wood |
bastard toadflax
Comandra pallida | woody creeping parasite of western North America having numerous thick powdery leaves and panicles of small dull-white flowers |
bastard pennyroyal
Trichostema dichotomum | aromatic plant of the eastern United States |
loot
booty
pillage
plunder
prize swag
dirty money | goods or money obtained illegally |
| slang | abuse with coarse language |
a gull
dupe
slang befool
cod fool put on
take in
put one over put one across | fool or hoax, The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone, You can't fool me! |
| slang | use slang or vulgar language |
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 |
bogus
fake
phony
phoney
bastard | fraudulent, having a misleading appearance |
| 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 |