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Definition of Dirty

Dirty

Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white.

Sullied; clouded; -- applied to color.

Sordid; base; groveling; as, a dirty fellow.

Sleety; gusty; stormy; as, dirty weather.

To foul; to make filthy; to soil; as, to dirty the clothes or hands.

To tarnish; to sully; to scandalize; -- said of reputation, character, etc.

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Dirty Quotations

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mahatma Gandhi

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
Friedrich Nietzsche

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
Friedrich Nietzsche

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.
Tupac Shakur

This shirt is dry clean only. Which means... it's dirty.
Mitch Hedberg

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
George Bernard Shaw

A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
George Orwell

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can't run a state.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
Arthur Schopenhauer

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.
George Orwell

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
George Orwell

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.
Richard M. Nixon

I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
George Burns

It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
George Burns

Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I never got a scratch on me, never got dirty. And Vig would come out with blood and sweat all over him. And he'd say to me, 'Oh, go manicure your nails.'
Orlando Bloom

I think people are born bisexual and the make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who is bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.
Megan Fox

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
Ross Perot

I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
Brigitte Bardot

I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day.
Brigitte Bardot

The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.
Norman Mailer

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W. Somerset Maugham

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
Charles Dudley Warner

I was married for 30 years. Isn't that enough? I've had my share of dirty underwear on the floor.
Martha Stewart

Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my Scotch, I say I'm thirsty, not dirty.
Joe E. Lewis

Being on a Michael Bay set is... well, it's the only set I've ever been on. But I would imagine there's no set that's run quite like it. It's big, it's loud, it's powerful, it's intense, it's dirty, it's hot, it's sweaty - and it's really exciting. There's never a dull moment; there's never a quiet moment.
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could.
Loretta Lynn

The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance.
Sid Vicious

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.
Billy Sunday

I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems occasionally, 'cause I can sound mean without attempting to be mean.
Alton Brown

If they play dirty, then you play dirty.
Lawrence Taylor

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Dirty Translations

dirty in Afrikaans is vuil
dirty in Danish is snavset
dirty in Dutch is onrein, morsig, vies, vuil, smerig
dirty in German is schmutzig, schmutzig, dreckig
dirty in Italian is imbrattare, insudiciare, fangoso
dirty in Latin is lino, immunda
dirty in Portuguese is sujo
dirty in Spanish is sucio, enfangar, mancillar
dirty in Swedish is osnygg, oren, smutsig

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