Meaning (1):
- make soiled, filthy, or dirty
Example in sentence:- don't soil your clothes when you play outside!
Meaning (2):
- soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime
Example in sentence:- a child in dirty overalls;
- Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves;
- dirty slums;
- dirty unswept sidewalks;
- mining is a dirty job;
- piles of dirty dishes;
- put his dirty feet on the clean sheet;
- wore an unclean shirt
Meaning (3):
- spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination
Example in sentence:- a dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout;
- the air near the foundry was always dirty
Meaning (4):
- (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency
Example in sentence:- a dirty old man;
- boys telling dirty jokes;
- dirty books and movies;
- dirty words;
- has a dirty mouth
Meaning (5):
- (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear
Example in sentence:- a dirty (or dingy) white;
- dirty;
- dirty-blonde hair;
- dirty-green walls;
- muddy colors;
- the muddied grey of the sea
Meaning (6):
- vile; despicable
Example in sentence:- a dirty (or lousy) trick;
- a filthy traitor
Meaning (7):
- violating accepted standards or rules
Example in sentence:- a dirty fighter;
- a nasty unsporting serve;
- fined for unsportsmanlike behavior;
- used foul means to gain power
Meaning (8):
- unethical or dishonest
Example in sentence:- a sordid political campaign;
- dirty police officers;
- shoddy business practices
Meaning (9):
- expressing or revealing hostility or dislike
Meaning (10):
- obtained illegally or by improper means
Example in sentence:- dirty money;
- ill-gotten gains
Meaning (11):
- contaminated with infecting organisms
Example in sentence:- dirty wounds;
- obliged to go into infected rooms
Meaning (12):
- (of a manuscript) defaced with changes
Meaning (13):
- unpleasantly stormy
Example in sentence:- there's dirty weather in the offing
Definition
[ superl.]