dirty

About 11.17 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime.

   Despite a walk in the rain, my shoes weren't too dirty.

2. adjective That makes one unclean; corrupting, infecting.

   Don't put that in your mouth, dear. It's dirty.

3. adjective Morally unclean; obscene or indecent, especially sexually.

   At the reception, Uncle Nick got drunk and told dirty jokes to the bridesmaids.

4. adjective Dishonorable; violating accepted standards or rules.

   He might have scored, but it was a dirty trick that won him the penalty.

5. adjective Corrupt, illegal, or improper.

   I won't accept your dirty money!

6. adjective Out of tune.

   You need to tune that guitar: the G string sounds dirty.

7. adjective Of color, discolored by impurities.

   The old flag was a dirty white.

8. adjective Containing data needing to be written back to memory or disk.

   Occasionally it reads the sector into a dirty buffer, which means it needs to sync the dirty buffer first.

Similar words

foul squalid dingy scummy contaminated grubby impure nasty begrimed grimy

Often followed by

and work water little clothes white old dishes or

Word family

dirtied dirtier dirties dirtiest dirtily dirtiness dirtinesses dirtying