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Meanings of dirty in English
Synonyms
Examples for "soil"
Examples for "soil"
1
Our police investigation into this serious crime on Malaysian soil will continue.
2
Cadmium presence in soil is considered a significant threat to human health.
3
Ten years of water seepage has a way of obliterating soil differences.
4
She fully expects another terror attack on American soil in the future.
5
They play an indispensable part in the vital cycle of the soil.
1
Ahead of the BBC Proms, we're asking if grime has gone global.
2
There certainly appears to be a renewed interest in grime in 2014.
3
The shop grime lingers on his hands and in his broken nails.
4
In summary: It's been a big year for this Leeds-based grime-punk five-piece.
5
And it means that stains and grime breakdown, when exposed to light.
1
I would rather bring up a colly than a man.
2
Even a Times subscriber can get colly-wobbles & the lady phoned the Times asking what had gone wrong.
3
PC's give me the colly-wobbles, too.
4
Of the sixteen other collies the majority were sables of divers shades.
5
Mr. W. is always training two or three collies to be Lassie.
1
In the depths of this yard stood a low, iron-roofed, smoke-begrimed building.
2
Fallion saw that his beard was not gray, merely begrimed with ash.
3
They were begrimed and charred, as if they had survived a fire.
4
His face was begrimed with dirt, his clothes were torn and untidy.
5
All defiling, smoke-begriming factories were to be banished to an innocuous distance.
1
So I hurried on, splashing and bemiring myself in the byways of the Bourbonnais.
2
There they came upon a pitiful group of humanity, bemired.
3
Steed and rider were bemired up to the eyes.
4
He is morally bemired, bespattered, and trod under foot, until he remains a lifeless carcase.
5
The bemired figure straightened to strike a parade-ground formal salute then grinned, his clay-caked cheeks cracking.
Violating accepted standards or rules.
Usage of dirty in English
1
Use this form as a quick-and-dirty way to create a new file.
2
He stammered; his mouth wobbled; he covered it with a dirty hand.
3
I looked at the letter; it was very dirty, and I said:
4
The stocks of many of the rifles were wrapped in dirty rags.
5
Some of them are dirty in their persons and in their habits.
6
She jerked with a dirty thumb in the direction of the kitchen.
7
The town school was situated in one of the dirty side streets.
8
He jerked a dirty thumb in the direction of the chief clerk.
9
They turn; clean and dirty alike are off to the seaside again.
10
They were dirty in person as well as dirty in their clothing.
11
Tempest was in the tattered and dirty finery of a seventeenth-century courtier.
12
Winston invited him to do a quick-and-dirty evaluation of the new patient.
13
The washerwomen will take charge of the dirty linen at the door.
14
And in a day from now the floors will be dirty again.
15
I lived there for some time; and was very shabby and dirty.
16
The young, dirty-faced girl couldn't have been more than half Missy's age.
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Dirty across language varieties
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Australia
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