Make soiled, filthy, or dirty.

synonyms: begrime, bemire, colly, grime, soil.

Roget 653: be unclean, become unclean etc. adj.; rot, putrefy, ferment, fester, rankle, reek; stink etc. 401; mold, molder; go bad etc. adj.. render unclean etc. adj.; dirt, dirty; daub, blot, blur, smudge, smutch^†, soil, smoke, tarnish, slaver, spot, smear; smirch; begrease^†; dabble, drabble^†, draggle, daggle^†; spatter, slubber; besmear &c., bemire, beslime^†, begrime, befoul; splash, stain, distain^†, maculate, sully, pollute, defile, debase, contaminate, taint, leaven; corrupt etc. (injure) 659; cover with dust etc. n.; drabble in the mud^†; roil.    wallow in the mire; slobber, slabber^†.    ... show more

Dutch: Schotse herdershond, grond, bodem

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.
— Mining is a dirty job.
— Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves.

synonyms: soiled, unclean.

Roget 653: dirty, filthy, grimy; unclean, impure; soiled etc. v.; not to be handled with kid gloves; dusty, snuffy^†, smutty, sooty, smoky; thick, turbid, dreggy; slimy; mussy [U.S.].    slovenly, untidy, messy, uncleanly.    [of people] unkempt, sluttish, dowdy, draggle-tailed; uncombed.    unscoured^†, unswept^†, unwiped^†, unwashed, unstrained, unpurified^†; squalid; lutose^†, slammocky^†, slummocky^†, sozzly^†.    nasty, coarse, foul, offensive, abominable, beastly, reeky, reechy^†; fetid etc. 401.    [of rotting living matter] decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid^†, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral^†, lentiginous^†, touched, fusty, effete, reasty^†, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty; putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied; saprogenic, saprogenous^†; purulent, carious, peccant; fecal, feculent; stercoraceous^†, excrementitious^†; scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous^†; gory, bloody; rotting etc. v.; rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese.    crapulous etc. (intemperate) 954^†; gross etc. (impure in mind) 961; fimetarious^†, fimicolous^†.    ... show more

Roget 874: disgraced etc. v.; blown upon; shorn of its beams" [Milton], shorn of one's glory; overcome, downtrodden; loaded with shame etc. n.; in bad repute etc. n.; out of repute, out of favor, out of fashion, out of countenance; at a discount; under a cloud, under an eclipse; unable to show one's face; in the shade, in the background; out at elbows, down at the elbows, down in the world.    inglorious; nameless, renownless^†; obscure; unknown to fame; unnoticed, unnoted^†, unhonored, unglorified^†.    shameful; disgraceful, discreditable, disreputable; despicable; questionable; unbecoming, unworthy; derogatory; degrading, humiliating, infra dignitatem [Lat.], dedecorous^†; scandalous, infamous, too bad, unmentionable; ribald, opprobrious; errant, shocking, outrageous, notorious.    ignominious, scrubby, dirty, abject, vile, beggarly, pitiful, low, mean, shabby base etc. (dishonorable) 940.    ... show more

Dutch: besmeurd
Polish: brudny, zabrudzony

of behavior or especially language Characterized by obscenity or indecency.

Polish: brudny

Vile; despicable:
— A dirty (or lousy) trick.

synonyms: filthy, lousy.

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.

synonym: contaminating.

Contaminated with infecting organisms:
— Dirty wounds.

synonym: pestiferous.

of color Discolored by impurities; not bright and clear:
— Dirty.
— A dirty (or dingy) white.
— Dirty-green walls.
— Dirty-blonde hair.

synonyms: dingy, muddied, muddy.

Roget 422: dim, dull, lackluster, dingy, darkish, shorn of its beams, dark 421.    faint, shadowed forth; glassy; cloudy; misty etc. (opaque) 426; blear; muggy^†, fuliginous^†; nebulous, nebular; obnubilated^†, overcast, crepuscular, muddy, lurid, leaden, dun, dirty; looming etc. v.. pale etc. (colorless) 429; confused etc. (invisible) 447.    ... show more

Roget 426: opaque, impervious to light; adiaphanous^†; dim etc. 422; turbid, thick, muddy, opacous^†, obfuscated, fuliginous^†, cloud, hazy, misty, foggy, vaporous, nubiferous^†, muggy^† etc. (turbidity) 426.1. smoky, fumid^†, murky, dirty.    ... show more

Roget 426a: turbid, thick, muddy, obfuscated, fuliginous^†, hazy, misty, foggy, vaporous, nubiferous^†; cloudy (cloud) 353.    smoky, fumid^†, murky, dirty.    ... show more

of a manuscript Defaced with changes:
— Foul (or dirty) copy.

synonyms: foul, marked-up.

Roget 940: dishonest, dishonorable; unconscientious, unscrupulous; fraudulent etc. 545; knavish; disgraceful etc. (disreputable) 974; wicked etc. 945.    false-hearted, disingenuous; unfair, one-sided; double, double-hearted, double-tongued, double-faced; timeserving^†, crooked, tortuous, insidious, Machiavelian, dark, slippery; fishy; perfidious, treacherous, perjured.    infamous, arrant, foul, base, vile, ignominious, blackguard.    contemptible, unrespectable, abject, mean, shabby, little, paltry, dirty, scurvy, scabby, sneaking, groveling, scrubby, rascally, pettifogging; beneath one.    low-minded, low-thoughted^†; base-minded.    undignified, indign^†; unbecoming, unbeseeming^†, unbefitting; derogatory, degrading; infra dignitatem [Lat.], beneath one's dignity; ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike; unknightly^†, unchivalric^†, unmanly, unhandsome; recreant, inglorious.    corrupt, venal; debased, mongrel.    faithless, of bad faith, false, unfaithful, disloyal; untrustworthy; trustless, trothless^†; lost to shame, dead to honor; barratrous.    ... show more

Obtained illegally or by improper means:
— Dirty money.

synonym: ill-gotten.

Expressing or revealing hostility or dislike.

Violating accepted standards or rules:
— A dirty fighter.

synonyms: cheating, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike.

Unethical or dishonest:
— Dirty police officers.

synonyms: shoddy, sordid.

Unpleasantly stormy.