soiled
soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime (Freq. 10)
- 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:
dirty, unclean
• Ant:
clean (for: dirty)
• Similar to:
Augean, bedraggled, draggled, befouled, fouled,
begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy,
black, smutty, buggy, cobwebby, dirty-faced, feculent,
filthy, foul, nasty, flyblown, squalid, sordid,
greasy, oily, lousy, maculate, mucky, muddy,
ratty, scummy, smudgy, snotty, snot-nosed, sooty,
travel-soiled, travel-stained, uncleanly, unswept, unwashed
• See Also:
untidy
• Derivationally related forms:
uncleanness (for: unclean), dirt (for: dirty), dirtiness (for: dirty)
• Attrubites:
cleanness
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