soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 24 freq. cnt.: 12 freq. cnt.: 10 freq. cnt.: 2
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 24 freq. cnt.: 12 freq. cnt.: 10 freq. cnt.: 2
dirty |
soiled |
unclean |
sample sentences
"dirty unswept sidewalks""a child in dirty overalls"
"dirty slums"
"piles of dirty dishes"
"put his dirty feet on the clean sheet"
"wore an unclean shirt"
"mining is a dirty job"
"Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
semantic pointers
also see
attribute
similar to
Augean
bedraggled, draggled
fouled, befouled
dingy, grimy, begrimed, grubby, grungy, raunchy
black, smutty
buggy
cobwebby
dirty-faced
feculent
filthy, foul, nasty
flyblown, squalid, sordid
greasy, oily
lousy
maculate
muddy, mucky
ratty
scummy
smudgy
snotty, snot-nosed
sooty
travel-soiled, travel-stained
uncleanly
unswept
unwashed