dirty
/ˈdɝti/ adjective A1- Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime. · Despite a walk in the rain, my shoes weren't too dirty.
- That makes one unclean; corrupting, infecting. · Don't put that in your mouth, dear. It's dirty.
- Morally unclean; obscene or indecent, especially sexually. · At the reception, Uncle Nick got drunk and told dirty jokes to the bridesmaids.
- Dishonorable; violating accepted standards or rules. · He might have scored, but it was a dirty trick that won him the penalty.
- Corrupt, illegal, or improper. · I won't accept your dirty money!
- Out of tune. · You need to tune that guitar: the G string sounds dirty.
- Of color, discolored by impurities. · The old flag was a dirty white.
- Containing data needing to be written back to memory or disk. · Occasionally it reads the sector into a dirty buffer, which means it needs to sync the dirty buffer first.
Comparative dirtier · Superlative dirtiest
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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He had borne with the public prison, and with privations of all sorts; still, by degrees nature, or rather custom, had prevailed, and he suffered from being naked, dirty, and hungry.
Her dirty petticoat quite escaped my notice.”
With no greater events than these in the Longbourn family, and otherwise diversified by little beyond the walks to Meryton, sometimes dirty and sometimes cold, did January and February pass away.
No one could guess what the dirty rag could be; I alone suspected that it was the waistcoat of the murdered man.
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