Synonyms: soiled, dirty, unclean
Definition: soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime
Usage: 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
Similar words: Augean
Definition: extremely filthy from long neglect
Similar words: bedraggled, draggled
Definition: limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud
Usage: the beggar's bedraggled clothes; scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts
Similar words: befouled, fouled
Definition: made dirty or foul
Usage: a building befouled with soot; breathing air fouled and darkened with factory soot
Similar words: dingy, grubby, grungy, grimy, begrimed, raunchy
Definition: thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot
Usage: a miner's begrimed face; dingy linen; grimy hands; grubby little fingers; a grungy kitchen
Definition: soiled with dirt or soot
Usage: with feet black from playing outdoors; his shirt was black within an hour
Similar words: buggy
Definition: infested with bugs
Similar words: cobwebby
Definition: covered with cobwebs
Similar words: dirty-faced
Definition: having a dirty face
Usage: a crowd of dirty-faced ragamuffins surrounded him
Similar words: feculent
Definition: foul with waste matter
Similar words: foul, filthy, nasty
Definition: disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter
Usage: as filthy as a pigsty; a foul pond; a nasty pigsty of a room
Similar words: flyblown, squalid, sordid
Definition: foul and run-down and repulsive
Usage: a flyblown bar on the edge of town; a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town; squalid living conditions; sordid shantytowns
Definition: smeared or soiled with grease or oil
Usage: greasy coveralls; get rid of rubbish and oily rags
Similar words: lousy
Definition: infested with lice
Usage: burned their lousy clothes
Similar words: maculate
Definition: spotted or blotched
Definition: dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck
Usage: muddy boots; a mucky stable
Similar words: ratty
Definition: dirty and infested with rats
Similar words: scummy
Definition: covered with scum
Usage: the scummy surface of the polluted pond
Similar words: smudgy
Definition: smeared with something that soils or stains; these words are often used in combination
Usage: oil-smeared work clothes; hostile faces smirched by the grime and rust- Henry Roth; ink-smudged fingers
Similar words: snot-nosed, snotty
Definition: dirty with nasal discharge
Usage: a snotty nose; a house full of snot-nosed kids
Similar words: sooty
Definition: covered with or as if with soot
Usage: a sooty chimney
Similar words: travel-soiled, travel-stained
Definition: soiled from travel
Usage: travel-soiled clothes
Similar words: uncleanly
Definition: habitually unclean
Similar words: unswept
Definition: not having been swept
Usage: unswept floors
Similar words: unwashed
Definition: not cleaned with or as if with soap and water
Usage: a sink full of unwashed dishes