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dirtiness





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“I think that takes away a lot of the dirtiness of it because, you know, you’re wiping it down for them, you’re cleaning it before you give them something.”

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 23, 2025

Mother-of-four Angelina Fosu, who has lived in James Turner Street since 2017, said: "The dirtiness and the rats are too much - inside the house, in our rooms. They need to clean the streets."

From BBC Feb. 29, 2024

Predictably, each side saw dirtiness in the play through its own prism.

From Seattle Times Nov. 9, 2021

“The dirtiness of corruption in the middle of a humanitarian tragedy is something more shocking and much closer to people’s real suffering,” he said.

From Washington Post Jul. 5, 2021

She cocked her head, now keenly aware of her wretched dirtiness.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas




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