What's the difference between cleanliness and dirtiness?

Cleanliness


Definition:

  • (n.) State of being cleanly; neatness of person or dress.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Major reasons for returning from a job to the competitive employment training program included inappropriate behavior or need for more training; returning from community living placement was related to money management, apartment cleanliness, social behavior, and meal preparation.
  • (2) It is concluded that no purpose is served in performing ASP before LDC in order to predict cleanliness and that the definition of cleanliness itself requires updating.
  • (3) The cleanliness of Kigali is a pleasing rebuttal to Forbes’ list, which declared in 2007 that the cleanest cities in the world were “largely located in countries noted for their democracy and their industrialisation” and that there are “no top-25 clean cities in South or Central America, Africa and Australia”.
  • (4) Yet when it comes to awarding marks for effort, spotless Singapore really should score high on any list given the way it enforces cleanliness and tidiness.
  • (5) The need for cleanliness of latrines and removal of stagnant water was emphasized.
  • (6) They can infest anybody and do not discriminate between class or cleanliness.
  • (7) At the apical third, however, the BDA-treated canals showed more favorable results with respect to cleanliness.
  • (8) The study has revealed that candida infection and poor denture cleanliness are very common in elderly denture wearers.
  • (9) Naturally contaminated water can be rendered potable by incubation with cordials at room temperature for 1 h. This may be a way to reduce the risk of water-borne diarrhoea, particularly where the cleanliness of drinking waters cannot be otherwise assured, for example when making up oral rehydration fluids and for travellers in high-risk areas.
  • (10) Rattata keeps appearing in my bathroom, which I can’t help but feel is a coded message about my cleanliness.
  • (11) It seems, however, that "cleanliness" is not going out as a cultural value.
  • (12) The early improvement in oral cleanliness was maintained after a period of fourteen months.
  • (13) The first of these techniques, new and easy to use, is suggested in this study for the regular surveillance of the microbiological cleanliness of floors, as well as for the selection, under the particular individual circumstances, of the best composition of disinfectant.
  • (14) Maintenance of the appropriate environmental conditions of the plant and general cleanliness of plant and equipment.
  • (15) Using 30 variables a standardized inspection procedure was developed and each of the premises was assessed in six main areas-structure and design, cleaning and cleanliness, personal hygiene, risk of contamination, temperature control, and training and knowledge about food hygiene.
  • (16) The Asian non-Muslim children whose mothers were English speaking (ES) compared well with the White and Afro-Caribbean group for mean dmft, percentage caries-free and oral cleanliness.
  • (17) The allegations are potentially damaging because they appear, superficially at least, to chime with previous claims about Mrs Netanyahu's temper and concern with cleanliness.
  • (18) Guidelines for achievable levels of cleanliness were suggested.
  • (19) However, such ratings compound an appraisal of cleanliness, tooth colour and gingival health in addition to purely orthodontic features.
  • (20) Cleanliness and simplicity are important considerations in the construction of any intraoral prostheses.

Dirtiness


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of being dirty; filthiness; foulness; nastiness; baseness; sordidness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
  • (2) You won’t read about this in adverts for “feminine hygiene” (because of course having periods makes us dirty).
  • (3) But the president said that the rest of the country had relied for too long on police to do the “dirty work” of containing urban violence and bore responsibility for the violent spectacle in Baltimore.
  • (4) But the other brother did not want to get his hands dirty with the regime and would have nothing.
  • (5) As one source close to the inquiry put it: “There was a hell of a lot of dirty stuff going on.” Two earlier Yard inquiries had failed to investigate the relevant notes in Mulcaire’s logs.
  • (6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A bus belching smoke in Bogotá Pretty dirty.
  • (7) Source: Reuters Dirty old river If the notion of an Englishman’s castle as his home is being challenged on the Levels, where scores of properties flooded, the bursting of the Thames from its banks a few hundred yards from the royal castle of Windsor has raised the issue to a new height.
  • (8) The most characteristic microscopic features of the ovarian metastases were garland and cribriform growth patterns, intraluminal "dirty" necrosis, segmental destruction of glands, and absence of squamous metaplasia.
  • (9) Everyone has been part of it, regardless of whether you’re a dirty metalhead or a flamboyant pop fan.” • This article was amended on 1 June 2017.
  • (10) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
  • (11) 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 .
  • (12) I would like it to always look as fresh as the day I made it, so part of the contract is: if the glass breaks, we mend it; if the tank gets dirty, we clean it; if the shark rots, we find you a new shark."
  • (13) You fight a dirty war with innovations.” Rawat expressed frustration about the pressures faced by his soldiers, required to police their own citizens in an environment the Indian government has described as “warlike”.
  • (14) The results of both tests are compared with those of the in vitro test (with the disinfectant diluted in distilled water, in water of standardized hardness, and in a 0.2% albumin solution), those of the European suspension test under clean and under dirty conditions, and those of four practical tests (the AFNOR test, the DGHM test, the QCT and the QSDT).
  • (15) O'Hagan's LRB piece is no part of an organised dirty tricks campaign.
  • (16) 5) Playing dirty helps win the day Three days before the vote, a panicking no campaign organised a last-ditch rally at the Place du Canada in Montreal.
  • (17) There's dirty politics, dirty money and dirty dealings.
  • (18) "Dreaming only of sleep and a sip of tea, the exhausted, harassed and dirty convict becomes obedient putty in the hands of the administration, which sees us solely as a free work force.
  • (19) Last year in a Radar accessible toilet I discovered a dirty syringe in the bowl.
  • (20) It is dirty and it is cold, he can’t even have a shower.