(v. t.) To dress or adorn tawdrily or with false taste.
Example Sentences:
Dirt
Definition:
(n.) Any foul of filthy substance, as excrement, mud, dust, etc.; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth; as, a wagonload of dirt.
(n.) Meanness; sordidness.
(n.) In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
(v. t.) To make foul of filthy; to dirty.
Example Sentences:
(1) But this morning's right-of-centre national papers were determined to rub his nose in the dirt.
(2) He got so bad that I - and this is true - turned off the television and went outside to watch my son add to his dirt collection.
(3) But Gates’s decision to “bump off from art” and live “in the sphere of dirt, the dirty, the stuff that we think is in the ground” was revelatory, leading to invitations to Davos and a TED Talk, where he talked about how he revived a neighborhood with imagination and hard graft .
(4) Earlier this year, a century-old wasteland of limestone and red dirt in south-west Nigeria was transformed into the biggest cement plant in Africa.
(5) Along with Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly, he brought the music of the dirt farms, the sweat shops and the lonesome highways into America's – and later the world's – living room.
(6) The land is held by the Navajo people, and visitors must pay an access fee to drive through the tribal park on a 17-mile dirt loop, which is suitable for all cars when dry but impassable after a storm ( usually in late summer).
(7) It’s a bit of a trek to get there: a few kilometres drive along a dirt road and then a short walk, with arrows painted on stones.
(8) Apparently, optimal disinfection of contaminated knives is extremely difficult to attain without the use of mechanical forces such as a high pressure water jet to remove the dirt.
(9) This state of high resistance to infection can be reduced by several factors which include circulatory embarrassment, tissue injury, dead space, and the presence of foreign bodies (dirt, sutures, drains, etc.).
(10) Among the prime concerns, especially for facial skin, is the type of dirt, debris, or make-up to be removed.
(11) We’re out there one night ’til 3am shoveling dirt on the fire.
(12) The land that when you shed your shoes and walk, you feel every grain of dirt and every blade of grass and for a moment, everything is right in the world and you are in your rightful place in it.
(13) Because the all-hallowed children must learn from their elders to exercise, every adult entering Hampstead Heath must hit the dirt for a set of 25 press-ups.
(14) Elevated concentrations of the soil fungi were significantly (P = 0.05) associated with the dirt floor, crawl-space type of basement.
(15) With its dirt pavements and crumbling wooden homes, the city of Kirov is a city stuck in time.
(16) Another former colleague in the psychological operations unit, Fred Allen Lucas, said that Page called him a "race traitor" for dating Latina women and took to calling other races "dirt people".
(17) Observations for estrus were conducted three times daily in a dirt paddock containing a testosterone-treated cow.
(18) On the outskirts of Juba, along a dirt road just past the UN camp, opposition forces clad in new uniforms and boots lined up for a military parade.
(19) Lead antiknock additives are therefore not a significant contributor to the lead content of dirt around houses where children usually play.
(20) As the result of smear slide evaluation, it was concluded that proper sputum specimens have been smeared but smears were generally too thin and contaminated with too many dirt .