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dirt•y
Pronunciation: (dûr'tē), [key]
—adj., dirt•i•er, dirt•i•est,
—v., dirt•ied, dirt•y•ing,
—adv.
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adj.
1. soiled with dirt; foul; unclean:
dirty laundry.
2. spreading or imparting dirt; soiling:
dirty smoke.
3. vile; mean; sordid; contemptible:
to play a dirty trick on someone.
4. obscene; pornographic; lewd:
a dirty joke.
5. undesirable or unpleasant; thankless:
He left the dirty work for me.
6. very unfortunate or regrettable:
That's a dirty shame!
7. not fair or sportsmanlike; unscrupulous:
a dirty fighter.
8. hostile, insulting, contemptuous, or resentful:
She gave me a dirty look. He made a dirty crack about the cooking.
9. (of a nuclear weapon) producing a relatively large amount of radioactive fallout.
10. (of the weather) stormy; squally:
It looks dirty to windward.
11. Informal.obtained through illegal or disreputable means:
dirty money.
12. appearing as if soiled; dark-colored; dingy; murky.
13. Slang.using or in possession of narcotics.
14. Foreign Exchange.(of currency floats) manipulated, as by a central bank influencing or changing exchange rates (opposed to
clean).
15. do (someone) dirty, Slang.to treat unfairly or reprehensibly, as by cheating or slandering.
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v.t., v.i.
to make or become dirty.
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adv.
1. Informal.in a mean, unscrupulous, or underhand way:
to play dirty.
2. Informal.in a lewd manner:
to talk dirty. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
