| dirty | | |
| v. (contact) | 1. begrime, bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil | make soiled, filthy, or dirty.; "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| ~ foul | make unclean.; "foul the water" |
| ~ contaminate, pollute, foul | make impure.; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake" |
| ~ smear | stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance. |
| ~ slime | cover or stain with slime.; "The snake slimed his victim" |
| ~ muddy, muddy up | dirty with mud. |
| ~ splash | soil or stain with a splashed liquid. |
| ~ mud, muck up, muck, mire | soil with mud, muck, or mire.; "The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden" |
| ~ crock | soil with or as with crock. |
| ~ blemish, spot | mar or impair with a flaw.; "her face was blemished" |
| adj. | 2. dirty, soiled, unclean | soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime.; "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" |
| ~ augean | extremely filthy from long neglect. |
| ~ bedraggled, draggled | limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud.; "the beggar's bedraggled clothes"; "scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts" |
| ~ befouled, fouled | made dirty or foul.; "a building befouled with soot"; "breathing air fouled and darkened with factory soot" |
| ~ begrimed, dingy, grimy, grungy, grubby, raunchy | thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot.; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen" |
| ~ smutty, black | soiled with dirt or soot.; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour" |
| ~ buggy | infested with bugs. |
| ~ cobwebby | covered with cobwebs. |
| ~ dirty-faced | having a dirty face.; "a crowd of dirty-faced ragamuffins surrounded him" |
| ~ feculent | foul with waste matter. |
| ~ filthy, nasty, foul | disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter.; "as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a room" |
| ~ flyblown, squalid, sordid | foul and run-down and repulsive.; "a flyblown bar on the edge of town"; "a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town"; "squalid living conditions"; "sordid shantytowns" |
| ~ greasy, oily | smeared or soiled with grease or oil.; "greasy coveralls"; "get rid of rubbish and oily rags" |
| ~ lousy | infested with lice.; "burned their lousy clothes" |
| ~ maculate | spotted or blotched. |
| ~ mucky, muddy | dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck.; "muddy boots"; "a mucky stable" |
| ~ ratty | dirty and infested with rats. |
| ~ scummy | covered with scum.; "the scummy surface of the polluted pond" |
| ~ smudgy | smeared with something that soils or stains; these words are often used in combination.; "oil-smeared work clothes"; "hostile faces smirched by the grime and rust"; "ink-smudged fingers" |
| ~ snot-nosed, snotty | dirty with nasal discharge.; "a snotty nose"; "a house full of snot-nosed kids" |
| ~ sooty | covered with or as if with soot.; "a sooty chimney" |
| ~ travel-soiled, travel-stained | soiled from travel.; "travel-soiled clothes" |
| ~ uncleanly | habitually unclean. |
| ~ unswept | not having been swept.; "unswept floors" |
| ~ unwashed | not cleaned with or as if with soap and water.; "a sink full of unwashed dishes" |
| ~ untidy | not neat and tidy.; "careless and untidy in her personal habits"; "an untidy living room"; "untidy and casual about money" |
| adj. | 3. dirty | (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency.; "dirty words"; "a dirty old man"; "dirty books and movies"; "boys telling dirty jokes"; "has a dirty mouth" |
| ~ bawdy, ribald, off-color | humorously vulgar.; "bawdy songs"; "off-color jokes"; "ribald language" |
| ~ profane, blasphemous, blue | characterized by profanity or cursing.; "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words" |
| ~ dirty-minded | having lewd thoughts. |
| ~ cruddy, smutty, filthy, nasty, foul | characterized by obscenity.; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul language"; "smutty jokes" |
| ~ foul-mouthed, foul-spoken | using foul or obscene language.; "noisy foul-mouthed women all shouting at once" |
| ~ lewd, raunchy, salacious, obscene | suggestive of or tending to moral looseness.; "lewd whisperings of a dirty old man"; "an indecent gesture"; "obscene telephone calls"; "salacious limericks" |
| ~ scabrous | dealing with salacious or indecent material.; "a scabrous novel" |
| ~ scatological | dealing pruriently with excrement and excretory functions.; "scatological literature" |
| ~ indecent | offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters.; "an earthy but not indecent story"; "an indecent gesture" |
| adj. | 4. dirty, filthy, lousy | vile; despicable.; "a dirty (or lousy) trick"; "a filthy traitor" |
| ~ nasty, awful | offensive or even (of persons) malicious.; "in a nasty mood"; "a nasty accident"; "a nasty shock"; "a nasty smell"; "a nasty trick to pull"; "Will he say nasty things at my funeral?" |
| adj. | 5. contaminating, dirty | spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination.; "the air near the foundry was always dirty"; "a dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout" |
| adj. | 6. dirty, pestiferous | contaminated with infecting organisms.; "dirty wounds"; "obliged to go into infected rooms" |
| ~ infected, septic | containing or resulting from disease-causing organisms.; "a septic sore throat"; "a septic environment"; "septic sewage" |
| adj. | 7. dingy, dirty, muddied, muddy | (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear.; "dirty"; "a dirty (or dingy) white"; "the muddied grey of the sea"; "muddy colors"; "dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair" |
| ~ impure | combined with extraneous elements. |
| adj. | 8. dirty, foul, marked-up | (of a manuscript) defaced with changes.; "foul (or dirty) copy" |
| ~ illegible | (of handwriting, print, etc.) not legible.; "illegible handwriting" |
| adj. | 9. dirty, ill-gotten | obtained illegally or by improper means.; "dirty money"; "ill-gotten gains" |
| ~ illegal | prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules.; "an illegal chess move" |
| adj. | 10. dirty | expressing or revealing hostility or dislike.; "dirty looks" |
| ~ hostile | characterized by enmity or ill will.; "a hostile nation"; "a hostile remark"; "hostile actions" |
| adj. | 11. cheating, dirty, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike | violating accepted standards or rules.; "a dirty fighter"; "used foul means to gain power"; "a nasty unsporting serve"; "fined for unsportsmanlike behavior" |
| ~ unfair, unjust | not fair; marked by injustice or partiality or deception.; "used unfair methods"; "it was an unfair trial"; "took an unfair advantage" |
| adj. | 12. dirty, sordid | unethical or dishonest.; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign" |
| ~ corrupt | lacking in integrity.; "humanity they knew to be corrupt...from the day of Adam's creation"; "a corrupt and incompetent city government" |
| adj. | 13. dirty | unpleasantly stormy.; "there's dirty weather in the offing" |
| ~ stormy | (especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion.; "a stormy day"; "wide and stormy seas" |
| whine | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. whimper, whine | a complaint uttered in a plaintive whining way. |
| ~ complaint | an expression of grievance or resentment. |
| v. (motion) | 2. whine | move with a whining sound.; "The bullets were whining past us" |
| ~ go, locomote, move, travel | change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically.; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" |
| v. (communication) | 3. snivel, whine | talk in a tearful manner. |
| ~ grizzle, yammer, yawp, whine | complain whiningly. |
| ~ mouth, speak, talk, verbalise, verbalize, utter | express in speech.; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize" |
| v. (perception) | 4. creak, screak, screech, skreak, squeak, whine | make a high-pitched, screeching noise.; "The door creaked when I opened it slowly"; "My car engine makes a whining noise" |
| ~ make noise, noise, resound | emit a noise. |
| v. (communication) | 5. grizzle, whine, yammer, yawp | complain whiningly. |
| ~ complain, kvetch, plain, quetch, sound off, kick | express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness.; "My mother complains all day"; "She has a lot to kick about" |
| ~ snivel, whine | talk in a tearful manner. |
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