Definitions for dirties
dirties
dirt·y
Spelling: [dur-tee]
IPA: /ˈdɜr ti/
Dirties is a 7 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.
You can make 168 anagrams from letters in dirties (deiirst).
Definitions for dirties
Idioms
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do (someone) dirty, Slang. to treat unfairly or reprehensibly, as by cheating or slandering.
adverb
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Informal. in a mean, unscrupulous, or underhand way:
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Informal. in a lewd manner:
adjective
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soiled with dirt; foul; unclean:
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spreading or imparting dirt; soiling:
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vile; mean; sordid; contemptible:
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obscene; pornographic; lewd:
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undesirable or unpleasant; thankless:
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very unfortunate or regrettable:
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not fair or sportsmanlike; unscrupulous:
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hostile, insulting, contemptuous, or resentful:
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(of a nuclear weapon) producing a relatively large amount of radioactive fallout.
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(of the weather) stormy; squally:
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Informal. obtained through illegal or disreputable means:
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appearing as if soiled; dark-colored; dingy; murky.
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Slang. using or in possession of narcotics.
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Foreign Exchange. (of currency floats) manipulated, as by a central bank influencing or changing exchange rates (opposed to clean).
verb (used with or without object)
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to make or become dirty.
Origin of dirties
First recorded in 1520-30; dirt + -y1
Examples for dirties
It was washing all the color out of the picture, and leaving it a dirty gray.
If there's not some dirty business in this, I'll eat me hat.
If only Sulzberger had managed to keep a zipped upper lip while leaving the dirty work to anonymous underlings.
Pull it out, please, me hand's that dirty'—and out come the writ!
Not one Argentine Jesuit lost his life during the dirty war, and he managed to save dozens of people.
I was so relieved, until I thought about my dirty pantyhose hanging on the shower at home.
As Americans, we still have a right to air both our dirty laundry and our R-Rated films.
Didn't Shandy always have a gob of it in his cheek—the dirty pig?
She is the author of dirty Entanglements: Corruption, Crime and Terrorism (Cambridge University Press).
Here in this dirty shanty you will enter into love's fulfillment.