Dirty
WordNet
adjective
(1) Unpleasantly stormy
"There's dirty weather in the offing"
(2) 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"
(3) (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"
(4) 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"
(5) Unethical or dishonest
"Dirty police officers"
"A sordid political campaign"
(6) Violating accepted standards or rules
"A dirty fighter"
"Used foul means to gain power"
"A nasty unsporting serve"
"Fined for unsportsmanlike behavior"
(7) Expressing or revealing hostility or dislike
"Dirty looks"
(8) Obtained illegally or by improper means
"Dirty money"
"Ill-gotten gains"
(9) (of a manuscript) defaced with changes
"Foul (or dirty) copy"
(10) Vile; despicable
"A dirty (or lousy) trick"
"A filthy traitor"
(11) (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"
(12) Contaminated with infecting organisms
"Dirty wounds"
"Obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen
verb
(13) Make soiled, filthy, or dirty
"Don't soil your clothes when you play outside!"
WiktionaryText
Adjective
- Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime.
- Despite a walk in the rain, my shoes weren't too dirty.
- That makes one unclean; corrupting, infecting.
- Don't put that in your mouth, dear, it's dirty.
- Morally unclean; obscene or indecent, especially sexually.
- At the reception, Uncle Nick got drunk and told dirty jokes to the bridesmaids.
- Dishonourable; violating accepted standards or rules.
- He might have scored, but it was a dirty trick that won him the penalty.
- Corrupt, illegal, or improper.
- I won't accept your dirty money!
- Of color, discolored by impurities.
- The old flag was a dirty white.
- Containing data which need to be written back to a larger memory.
- Occasionally it reads the sector into a dirty buffer, which means it needs to sync the dirty buffer first.
- Containing data which need to be overwritten.
- Carrying illegal drugs.
- None of y'all get into my car if you're dirty.