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Meanings of dirty in English
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Examples for "soiled"
Examples for "soiled"
1
Yet-andthis was perhaps the most important thing-sheno longer felt soiled.
2
These central houses are not soiled by the touch of actual merchandise.
3
One was in soiled every-day clothes, the other in immaculate evening dress.
4
The rain, which in former days soiled the sewer, now washes it.
5
Soak the soiled ticks in cold water immediately to remove remaining feathers.
1
Each year, millions of people acquire this infection by drinking unclean water.
2
The behaviour of that unclean white madman is furious in the extreme.
3
Another source of colic in the breast-fed baby is the unclean nipple.
4
But a pig is only the unclean animal-theforbidden of the prophet.
5
Mustn't allow the unclean rise of emotion get the better of him.
1
The new world was unstained by the contaminating vices of the old.
2
Or it ends up in landfill, potentially contaminating soil and water sources.
3
In the meantime he must be contaminating a huge number of people.
4
To see a pile of bones, famine and contaminating influences surround you.
5
Who is this fellow, and why is he contaminating our shopping carts?
1
His changes had merely muddied the plot and cheapened her main idea.
2
Hasbro and Takara muddied Bumblebee's identity long before the live-action movies began.
3
It may still be but the waters have been muddied of late.
4
But the advice has been seriously muddied because of the anti-sugar backlash.
5
Within a few moments a car had arrived, a rugged, muddied SUV.
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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