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• “don’t soil your clothes when you play outside!“

Synonyms

• soil make soiled, filthy, or dirty; the state of being covered with unclean things ; the part of the earth’s surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock ; material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use); the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state
• begrime make soiled, filthy, or dirty
• grime make soiled, filthy, or dirty; the state of being covered with unclean things
• colly make soiled, filthy, or dirty
• bemire make soiled, filthy, or dirty

• “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“

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• soiled soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime
• unclean soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime; having a physical or moral blemish so as to make impure according to dietary or ceremonial laws

• “dirty words“
• “a dirty old man“
• “dirty books and movies“
• “boys telling dirty jokes“
• “has a dirty mouth“

• “despicable“
• “a dirty (or lousy) trick“
• “a filthy traitor“

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• filthy disgustingly dirty; vile; characterized by obscenity
• lousy very bad; infested with lice; vile

• “especially radioactive contamination“
• “the air near the foundry was always dirty“
• “a dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout“

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• contaminating spreading pollution or contamination; that infects or taints

• “dirty wounds“
• “obliged to go into infected rooms- Jane Austen“

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• pestiferous contaminated with infecting organisms; likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease; tending to corrupt or pervert ; causing irritation or annoyance

• “not bright and clear“
• “dirty is often used in combination“
• “a dirty (or dingy) white“
• “the muddied grey of the sea“
• “muddy colors“
• “dirty-green walls“
• “dirty-blonde hair“

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• dingy thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; (of color) discolored by impurities; causing dejection
• muddied (of color) discolored by impurities
• muddy dirty with mud ; cause to become muddy; make turbid; (of soil) soft and watery; dirty and messy; (of color) discolored by impurities; (of liquids) clouded as with sediment

• “foul (or dirty) copy“

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• foul an act that violates the rules of a sport ; hit a foul ball ; make impure; become or cause to become obstructed; commit a foul; spot, stain, or pollute; make unclean; become soiled and dirty ; highly offensive; offensively malodorous; violating accepted standards or rules; (of a baseball) not hit between the foul lines ; (of a manuscript) defaced with changes; characterized by obscenity; disgustingly dirty; especially of a ship’s lines etc
• marked-up (of a manuscript) defaced with changes

• “dirty money“
• “ill-gotten gains“

Synonyms

• ill-gotten obtained illegally or by improper means

• “dirty looks“

• “a dirty fighter“
• “used foul means to gain power“
• “a nasty unsporting serve“
• “fined for unsportsmanlike behavior“

Synonyms

• cheating(a)
• foul an act that violates the rules of a sport ; hit a foul ball ; make impure; become or cause to become obstructed; commit a foul; spot, stain, or pollute; make unclean; become soiled and dirty ; highly offensive; offensively malodorous; violating accepted standards or rules; (of a baseball) not hit between the foul lines ; (of a manuscript) defaced with changes; characterized by obscenity; disgustingly dirty; especially of a ship’s lines etc
• unsporting violating accepted standards or rules
• unsportsmanlike violating accepted standards or rules

• “dirty police officers“
• “a sordid political campaign“
• “shoddy business practices“

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• sordid morally degraded; unethical or dishonest; foul and run-down and repulsive; meanly avaricious and mercenary
• shoddy reclaimed wool fiber ; made of inferior workmanship and materials; unethical or dishonest

• “there’s dirty weather in the offing“