dirty

/ˈdər-tē/

adjective

  1. not clean or pure

  2. likely to befoul or defile with a soiling substance (such as mud, dust, or grime)

  3. contaminated with infecting organisms

dirty clothes

dirty jobs

dirty filthy foul nasty squalid mean conspicuously unclean or impure. dirty emphasizes the presence of dirt more than an emotional reaction to it. filthy carries a strong suggestion of offensiveness and typically of gradually accumulated dirt that begrimes and besmears.

adverb

  1. in a dirty manner: such as

  2. deceptively, underhandedly

  3. indecently

fight dirty

verb

  1. to soil with a substance (such as mud or grime) : to make dirty

  2. to stain with dishonor : sully

  3. to debase by distorting the real nature of

dirtied my new shoes