(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.
Grubby
Definition:
(a.) Dirty; unclean.
(n.) Any species of Cottus; a sculpin.
Example Sentences:
(1) "We were not in the army," says Sunday Sienda, 21, wearing a grubby Barcelona football shirt.
(2) "I am an old lady, and have many grandchildren," she says, pointing to the gaunt, grubby faces baking around her in the tent.
(3) They say that she didn't work for it but some people say that she fought for it," he said huddled over a small wooden box containing hundreds of grubby looking Liberian notes.
(4) If drug cartel kingpin El Chapo stays in Mexico, 'absolutely nothing' will change Read more A joint police and military operation seized Guzmán at a hotel after a battle which left five dead and six captured, including the cartel leader who appeared dazed and grubby in photographs.
(5) – rather than on the man’s indecent entitlement, grubbiness and criminality.” 'These women are not statistics' – deaths in Australia in 2015 Read more Surely Lay would cringe, then, at comments made by Victorian homicide squad head, detective inspector Mick Hughes, following the brutal and seemingly random killing of 17-year-old schoolgirl, Masa Vukotic, in broad daylight while she was out walking as part of her usual exercise routine.
(6) The BBC should be ashamed of single-handedly doing a racist, fascist party the biggest favour in its grubby history.
(7) A chink, the merest pinprick of light, has opened up in the grubby soap opera of Sepp Blatter, Fifa and the future of football.
(8) When first confronted by Arab political revolutions, Britain vacillated, reluctant to abandon useful and grubby friendship with corrupt regimes.
(9) John McDonnell , the shadow chancellor, said: “The behaviour of the chancellor over the last 11 days calls into question his fitness for office he now holds.” The budget was the result of the “grubby, incompetent manipulations of a political chancellor”, he added.
(10) I'm not sure what sort of woman "we" expect to suffer domestic abuse, but those of us who spend too much of our lives reading celebrity autobiographies are not quite as shocked by proof that domestic abuse is not solely "the grubby problem of the inarticulate and poorly educated, who can't eloquently express their frustration, who are not self-aware or emotionally intelligent enough to thrash out their differences via a civilised heart-to-heart, rather than simply with a thrashing".
(11) Senator Conroy has opened his account as Labor’s defence spokesman with a grubby and pre meditated slur against one of our most respected 3-star lieutenant general officers, accusing him of a political cover-up no less.
(12) The Scottish first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, characterised it as a “grubby, shameless” deal.
(13) Two decades on from denationalisation, and with oversight entrusted to technocratic regulators who regard themselves as untouchable as judges, the very idea of grubby politics intervening directly on what businesses charge families for fuel had come to seem unthinkable.
(14) McCann approves of a bawdy drinking song recorded by the Hold Steady , and there are grubby cameos from Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol and Will Champion of Coldplay.
(15) 12.55pm BST Mo Yan's China: 'a world of magic, sexual exploitation, ignorance and senseless violence' In his top 10 books on China , Paul Mason chose Mo's Big Breasts and Wide Hips as his number two, calling it Mo's masterpiece: China's 20th century told symbolically through the story of one man, from birth to maturity; an adult who cannot wean himself from his mother's milk, assailed by wave upon wave of misfortune, poverty, war, imprisonment and finally release into the grubby capitalism of the 1990s.
(16) The Trumpian “so” also works similarly in the opposite direction: to intensify negatives without descending to grubby detail.
(17) Beyond lies Kamrangir Char, a vast slum where clouds of acrid smoke from burning rubbish hide tenements packed with thin men, anxious women and grubby children with tubercular coughs.
(18) Grubby green fingers For small children, the magic of planting a seed and watching it grow (watch out for overzealous waterers) may even trump the CBeebies schedule.
(19) It feels grubby to enter such a debate as Aleppo burns, but the revision of history demands a response.
(20) There are outliers in the discourse, but asylum seekers are condemned by some as “vermin” and “ like cockroaches ”, or sneered at as “filthy”, “grubby” or “penniless”.