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dirty

Definition for dirty

adjective as in obscene, pornographic

adjective as in dishonest

verb as in cause to be soiled

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Example Sentences

Sierra Club founder John Muir rhapsodized about the purity of wilderness, supporting the push to protect Yosemite’s lands from the “dirty” influence of the native tribes who inhabited it.

From Salon

The plot centers on thousands of impoverished Indian farmers who commandeer a fleet and sail, dirty, uncivilized and desperate, to France, where a small resistance is all that stands in the way from their overrunning the country.

From Salon

Those clothes become so dirty that they are thrown out in a cargo vehicle that burns up in the atmosphere.

From BBC

Springfield: No, I don’t like it dirty…

She’d tell me a dirty joke onstage every night.

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

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