Crossword clues for dirtied
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dirty \Dirt"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dirtied; p. pr. & vb. n. Dirtying.]
To foul; to make filthy; to soil; as, to dirty the clothes or hands.
To tarnish; to sully; to scandalize; -- said of reputation, character, etc.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-pastdirty)
WordNet
adj. 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" [syn: soiled, unclean] [ant: clean]
(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" [ant: clean]
vile; despicable; "a dirty (or lousy) trick"; "a filthy traitor" [syn: filthy, lousy]
spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination; "the air near the foundry was always dirty"; "the air near the foundry was always dirty"; "a dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout" [syn: contaminating] [ant: clean]
contaminated with infecting organisms; "dirty wounds"; "obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen [syn: contaminated, infected, pestiferous]
(of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; "dirty" is often used in combination; "a dirty (or dingy) white"; "the muddied gray of the sea"; "muddy colors"; "dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair" [syn: dingy, muddied, muddy]
(of a manuscript) defaced with changes; "foul (or dirty) copy" [syn: foul, marked-up]
obtained illegally or by improper means; "dirty money"; "ill-gotten gains" [syn: ill-gotten]
expressing or revealing hostility or dislike; "dirty looks"
violating accepted standards or rules; "a dirty fighter"; "used foul means to gain power"; "a nasty unsporting serve"; "fined for unsportsmanlike behavior" [syn: cheating(a), foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike]
unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign" [syn: sordid]
unpleasantly stormy; "there's dirty weather in the offing"
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Usage examples of "dirtied".
Another moment she could see, as if through a dirtied window, some place she knew, but had lost, and her old bones ached with wanting to be there.
She wore a patchwork frock dirtied by labor and a smile that melted away when she noticed Gilwyn.
But it spoke, and the words seemed to come from Whitehead's bowels, dirtied with fear.
It was as if Mamoulian had never quite gone, as though he'd left a sliver of himself in Breer's head to polish up his picture when time dirtied it.
In a week of rain and night-frost the faces on the photographs had been spoiled, dirtied arid finally eroded entirely.
The European paid the driver and then, after some delay unlocking the front door, he and Carys stepped into a house whose dirtied lace curtains and peeling paintwork suggested nothing abnormal in a street whose houses were all in need of renovation.
This was brutal stuff, and he felt dirtied by the very saying of it, but he knew how passionately she'd resist.
He threw the dirtied towel down with them, and looked back up at Jerichau.
He was dirtied with smoke and mud, through which tears coursed as he repeated his story, or what few bones of it there were.
From time to time during the course of the elaborate meal the black woman appears, to help missis Savage serve her guests and to bear away dirtied plates and emptied bowls.
Mercedes has been unobtrusively gathering up dirtied plates and cutlery, and as she heads for the swinging door, a weighty stack of china in her strong arms, missis Savage's melodic voice rings out, not sharply, but on the edge of sharpness, Those bottles, Mercedesyou've forgotten the wine bottles.
Think how he dirtied my tools one night, John-and you blamed me for it.
Kathleen had done all those things-hidden the books, taken Jenny's mice, dirtied the garden tools, muddled the drawers?
Duncan Sarratt had always looked at him as if he were trash, and that bitch Elena had acted as if he'd dirtied the air she had to breathe.
She, on the other hand, didn't like the idea of crawling between sheets alÂready dirtied by the previous day's accumulation of dust, germs, and dead skin cells.