(v. t.) To foul; to make filthy; to soil; as, to dirty the clothes or hands.
(v. t.) To tarnish; to sully; to scandalize; -- said of reputation, character, etc.
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.
(1) Bob Farnsworth, president of Nashville, Tennessee-based Hummingbird Productions, told trade publication Variety that the film was set for release in 2015 and would star Karolyn Grimes, who played George Bailey's daughter in the original film.
(2) Some of these grime artists, if they’re telling you to vote, young people are going to listen.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest “Preach!” Speakers on the Grime 4 Corbyn panel debate.
(3) Grime 2.0 , compiled by Joe Muggs, is released by Big Dada on 6 May.
(4) Perhaps grime and dubstep were simply too abrasive and strange to be successfully watered down for mainstream tastes.
(5) No one expects young creatives to flock to the Tories – but why all this grime support for Labour?
(6) Pitch A mix of hard-edged content – rap freestyles delivered straight to camera by attitude-heavy grime artists – and glitzier material: red-carpet reporting from movie premieres, backstage interviews with popstars and high-profile music videos.
(7) The outside spending has even become its own campaign issue, as Grimes sought to link McConnell with the notorious Koch brothers (a cause McConnell only helped with his June speech to a Koch brothers funded group in which he promised to not take up legislation on the minimum wage, equal pay or student loan reform) and accuse him of “selling out to the highest bidder”.
(8) Kentucky secretary of state Alison Lundergan Grimes began the night recalling that the soon-to-be nominee loves lifestyle TV “and can devour buffalo wings”.
(9) Grimes, Kentucky’s secretary of state, says the race is about McConnell’s opposition to policies that would help Kentucky’s working poor, including a minimum wage increase, equal pay for women, his opposition to the Affordable Care Act – which would shut down Kentucky’s newly popular healthcare exchange Kynect – and his inability or unwillingness to bring home pork barrel spending (the nearly $3bn the state just somehow ended up with after McConnell ended the government shutdown in 2013 notwithstanding).
(10) "The way grime sounded, it just wasn't going to throw up kids who cross over into the charts all the time," says Darcus Beese, joint MD of Stryder's label Island.
(11) Meanwhile, Jonathan Grimes just took in a three-yard run for Houston against Tennessee.
(12) There are people in this audience who will lose their jobs if this goes through and we will not just stand by and allow that to happen,” Grimes says, to whoops and applause.
(13) I wish the MCs who’ve supported him all the best, but it’s a big risk to take.” In three weeks’ time we’ll find out whether grime’s support of Corbyn is a game-changing shift or just an interesting pop cultural moment.
(14) (With the exception of certain countries – the Netherlands and, more unexpectedly, the Czech Republic – there are no real grime "scenes" internationally, but thanks to bloody-minded obsessives such as Juzlo in Australia, Prettybwoy in Japan, Major Grave in Ireland or Starkey and Team Shadatek in the US, grime is a global affair.)
(15) "It's becoming more commercial, definitely," says Dec Lennon, who makes boogie tracks as Krystal Klear and has a disco-centric show on Rinse FM, the East London station formerly synonymous with dubstep and grime.
(16) Scrapping funding for these projects would impact low-income households and renters and public housing users who cannot afford or do not otherwise have access to their own panels, head of the Australian Solar Council, John Grimes, told Guardian Australia.
(17) Ed Pilkington Kentucky Candidates: Mitch McConnell (R, incumbent) vs Alison Lundergan Grimes (D) Polling: The Real Clear Politics average has McConnell up by 7.2 and, though earlier polling showed Grimes well within the margin of error, polls released over the weekend didn’t trend Grimes’s way.
(18) His programme also includes an intriguing rarity: Ronald Stevenson’s Fantasy on Peter Grimes.
(19) Growing up on a council estate in east London, grime music empowered me because it made me feel: We might be from the slums, but we can make amazing music,” Sofia added.
(20) Inspired by the idea of a city built around an airport (she grew up in Hounslow, near Heathrow), it leaves behind the constraints of any one genre, meandering through R&B-inflected garage (Beach Mode), instrumental grime (Backhand Winners) and Omar S-style stripped-back melodic techno (Eternal Mode).