What's the difference between dirty and raunchy?

Dirty


Definition:

  • (superl.) Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white.
  • (superl.) Sullied; clouded; -- applied to color.
  • (superl.) Sordid; base; groveling; as, a dirty fellow.
  • (superl.) Sleety; gusty; stormy; as, dirty weather.
  • (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.

Raunchy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Freddie's lyrics were never really even that wild or suggestive, never mind erotic or raunchy.
  • (2) She said that the highly publicised online spat between Connor and Cyrus – the Hannah Montana star who has gone for an image overhaul with raunchy videos such as Wrecking Ball and a very sexual "twerking" incident at MTV's Video Music Awards – has not helped break the gender stereotype in the industry.
  • (3) He compared Page 3 to a new exhibition of erotic Japanese paintings at the British Museum in London and said: "This stuff at the British Museum is far more explicit and raunchy."
  • (4) ▶ Not funny Valentin: Raunchy posters for The Artist star Jean Dujardin's new comedy Les Infidèles have been removed from Parisian billboards after worries that the "sexist" pictures, which show Dujardin nestled between the spreadeagled legs of an anonymous woman , would damage the actor's Oscar prospects.
  • (5) In its turn, this raunchy and rebellious interpretation came under attack in the 1980s for disregarding the forces of the conservative establishment, underestimating the still formidable power of monarchy, aristocracy and Church of England.
  • (6) To me it's not about nudity or having a raunchy or raw kind of look… People think if you take pictures of yourself, you're self-obsessed but that's like saying if you write a diary or an autobiography, you're self-obsessed.
  • (7) ParentPort will act as a one-stop online complaints centre for the public to lodge concerns about all manner of inappropriate material – from risque music videos and raunchy billboard advertising to TV programmes and clothing lines at retailers – to simplify the complaints process.
  • (8) The four-page document outlines a new "two-tiered case-by-case" approach to sexualised images that will limit advertising with sexual content appearing near schools as well as the how raunchy the imagery is.
  • (9) Financial paralysis has seen movie production grind to a halt: MGM's only significant release this year was a raunchy comedy, Hot Tub Time Machine , that bombed at the box office.
  • (10) While Summer renounced her raunchy past, betraying her gay fans in the process, her best records still pulsate with that spirit, the lifeforce of pop itself.
  • (11) This is the part of the equation that got lost on Miley Cyrus and is probably why so many people found her attempt at raunchiness not just excruciating to watch but also offensive.
  • (12) She has designed a handbag for Fendi, vases for Lalique, and a perfume bottle for Donna Karan, as well as the obligatory luxury yacht – and even a raunchy range of swimwear, leading to rumours she was starting her own fashion label.
  • (13) A raunchy TV ad featuring ex-Baywatch star Pamela Anderson has been banned for being sexist and degrading to women.
  • (14) Is that why he doesn't really make comedies any more – because his comedy-style is more family-friendly than raunchy?
  • (15) The Radio Times has been criticised by the advertising watchdog for running a raunchy ad for a Russian bride service on its website.
  • (16) The big hope is that Yang Guang and Tian Tian will produce cubs, but they may need help, counsels the Daily Mail in its coverage: "In 2007, keepers at Northern Thailand's Chiang Mai zoo resorted to sitting a male called Chuang Chuang in front of a TV showing raunchy videos of bears mating in an attempt to spark his interest."
  • (17) Also likely to end Washington's staid image is HBO's new comedy Washingtonienne, based on Jessica Cutler's raunchy blog, which aims to make Washington's young, single professionals as infamous as Sex and the City made their New York counterparts.
  • (18) Say what you like about the Eurovision song contest: the staging is spectacular and acts like the raunchy Polish faux-folk girls and Austrian drag queen Conchita Wurst are fun.
  • (19) The Downing Street-commissioned Bailey review is expected to recommend restrictions on products such as padded bras and high heels for girls as young as 10 and raunchy music videos .
  • (20) She must have wanted to come across as cool and edgy during her bikini clad VMA performance, but instead the young singer turned herself into a parody of what a female pop star is supposed to be with her misguided attempt at raunchiness.