(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.
Pure
Definition:
(superl.) Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; free from mixture or combination; clean; mere; simple; unmixed; as, pure water; pure clay; pure air; pure compassion.
(superl.) Free from moral defilement or quilt; hence, innocent; guileless; chaste; -- applied to persons.
(superl.) Free from that which harms, vitiates, weakens, or pollutes; genuine; real; perfect; -- applied to things and actions.
(superl.) Ritually clean; fitted for holy services.
(superl.) Of a single, simple sound or tone; -- said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have confirmed this directly by showing that pure CCK is a potent inhibitor of gastric emptying.
(2) Proving that not all teens are content with being part of a purely digital community, Adele Mayr attended a YouTube meet-up in London’s Hyde Park.
(3) A cytogenetic and anatomopathologic study of an embryo of 24 mm crown-rump length showing pure triploidy (69,XXY) is reported.
(4) Of the three patients with a pure or predominantly endometrioid pattern treated with diethylstilbestrol, two had a marked clinical response.
(5) In case of biliary and pancreatic duct obstruction with pure pancreatic reflux, both oedema and inflammatory infiltrations were evident, whereas, in the presence of biliary reflux too, more serious histological features were detected.
(6) Pure bile gave 32 correct diagnoses (67%) and 14 diagnoses of inadequate material (29%), which contained few nondegenerated cells and made microscopic diagnosis unreliable.
(7) Enzyme activities were measured on nitrocellulose blots by using pure enzyme preparations as well as Triton X-100-solubilized membranes.
(8) A critical attitude towards the use of silicone breast implants, when these are used for purely cosmetic purposes, is recommended at present.
(9) An attempt to eliminate the age effect by adjusting for age differences in monaural shadowing errors, fluid intelligence, and pure-tone hearing loss did not succeed.
(10) Of the two major forms of cytotactin (220 and 200 kDa), the larger form predominated during development of the mouse brain and also predominated in mixed neuron-glia cultures but not in pure glial cultures.
(11) Embryonal carcinomas were found in 15 tumours, two being of pure type and the remaining 13 a part of mixed tumours.
(12) While the precise function of the MIRP is not known, the availability of this protein in pure and biologically relevant quantities will allow further studies to elucidate its pathobiologic function.
(13) Differential plating yielded relatively pure populations of chromaffin cells that demonstrated excellent viability if processed within 2 hours after cessation of the gland's circulation.
(14) Homogenates of these cells in chloroform-methanol solution showed an identical absorption spectrum with pure bilirubin dissolved in the same solution.
(15) An autopsy on the next day revealed pure pulmonary alveolar hemorrhage without leukemic infiltration or inflammation.
(16) 0.5 to 1 gram pure Bismuth per day and person leaves the patients naturally by faeces.
(17) Moreover, exposure to a pure 60 Hz electric field or to a magnetically-induced electric field of identical strength resulted in similar changes in calcium transport.
(18) Pure sarcomas of the esophagus are exceedingly rare.
(19) Confirmation of the identity of the clone was provided by a match between the amino acid sequence predicted from the cDNA sequence and the actual amino acid sequence determined for a tryptic peptide fragment of one of the pure glycoproteins.
(20) Six were benign, 11 malignant fibrous, and 3 pure malignant histiocytomas.