Dingy vs. Dirty

Dingyadjective

dark, dull

Dirtyadjective

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

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

Dingyadjective

shabby, squalid, uncared-for

Dirtyadjective

That makes one unclean; corrupting, infecting.

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

Dingyadjective

Soiled; sullied; of a dark or dusky color; dark brown; dirty.

Dirtyadjective

Morally unclean; obscene or indecent, especially sexually.

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

Dingyadjective

thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot;

‘a miner's begrimed face’; ‘dingy linen’; ‘grimy hands’; ‘grubby little fingers’; ‘a grungy kitchen’;

Dirtyadjective

Dishonourable; violating accepted standards or rules.

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

Dingyadjective

(of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear;

‘dirty’; ‘a dirty (or dingy) white’; ‘the muddied gray of the sea’; ‘muddy colors’; ‘dirty-green walls’; ‘dirty-blonde hair’;

Dirtyadjective

Corrupt, illegal, or improper.

‘I won't accept your dirty money!’;

Dingyadjective

depressing in character or appearance;

‘drove through dingy streets’; ‘the dismal prison twilight’; ‘drab old buildings’; ‘a dreary mining town’; ‘gloomy tenements’; ‘sorry routine that follows on the heels of death’;

Dirtyadjective

Out of tune.

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

Dirtyadjective

Of color, discolored by impurities.

‘The old flag was a dirty white.’;

Dirtyadjective

(computing) 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.’;

Dirtyadjective

(slang) Carrying illegal drugs among one's possessions or inside of one's bloodstream.

‘None of y'all get into my car if you're dirty.’;

Dirtyadjective

(informal) Used as an intensifier, especially in conjunction with "great".

‘He lives in a dirty great mansion.’;

Dirtyadjective

Sleety; gusty; stormy.

‘dirty weather’;

Dirtyadverb

In a dirty manner.

‘to play dirty’;

Dirtyverb

(transitive) To make (something) dirty.

Dirtyverb

(transitive) To stain or tarnish (somebody) with dishonor.

Dirtyverb

(transitive) To debase by distorting the real nature of (something).

Dirtyverb

(intransitive) To become soiled.

Dirtyadjective

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

Dirtyadjective

Sullied; clouded; - applied to color.

Dirtyadjective

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

‘The creature's at his dirty work again.’;

Dirtyadjective

Sleety; gusty; stormy; as, dirty weather.

‘Storms of wind, clouds of dust, an angry, dirty sea.’;

Dirtyverb

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

Dirtyverb

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

Dirtyverb

make soiled, filthy, or dirty;

‘don't soil your clothes when you play outside!’;

Dirtyadjective

soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime;

‘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’;

Dirtyadjective

(of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency;

‘dirty words’; ‘a dirty old man’; ‘dirty books and movies’; ‘boys telling dirty jokes’; ‘has a dirty mouth’;

Dirtyadjective

vile; despicable;

‘a dirty (or lousy) trick’; ‘a filthy traitor’;

Dirtyadjective

spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination;

‘the air near the foundry was always dirty’; ‘the air near the foundry was always dirty’; ‘a dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout’;

Dirtyadjective

contaminated with infecting organisms;

‘dirty wounds’; ‘obliged to go into infected rooms’;

Dirtyadjective

(of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear;

‘dirty’; ‘a dirty (or dingy) white’; ‘the muddied gray of the sea’; ‘muddy colors’; ‘dirty-green walls’; ‘dirty-blonde hair’;

Dirtyadjective

(of a manuscript) defaced with changes;

‘foul (or dirty) copy’;

Dirtyadjective

obtained illegally or by improper means;

‘dirty money’; ‘ill-gotten gains’;

Dirtyadjective

expressing or revealing hostility or dislike;

‘dirty looks’;

Dirtyadjective

violating accepted standards or rules;

‘a dirty fighter’; ‘used foul means to gain power’; ‘a nasty unsporting serve’; ‘fined for unsportsmanlike behavior’;

Dirtyadjective

unethical or dishonest;

‘dirty police officers’; ‘a sordid political campaign’;

Dirtyadjective

unpleasantly stormy;

‘there's dirty weather in the offing’;

Dirtyadjective

covered or marked with an unclean substance

‘a tray of dirty cups and saucers’; ‘her boots were dirty’;

Dirtyadjective

causing a person or place to become unclean

‘farming is a hard, dirty job’;

Dirtyadjective

(of a nuclear weapon) producing considerable radioactive fallout.

Dirtyadjective

(of an activity) dishonest; dishonourable

‘he had a reputation for dirty dealing’;

Dirtyadjective

using illegal drugs.

Dirtyadjective

used to emphasize one's disgust for someone or something

‘you dirty rat!’;

Dirtyadjective

concerned with sex in a lewd or obscene way

‘he told a stream of dirty jokes’;

Dirtyadjective

(of weather) rough, stormy, and unpleasant.

Dirtyadjective

(of a colour) not bright or pure; dull

‘the sea was a waste of dirty grey’;

Dirtyadjective

(of popular music) having a distorted or rasping tone

‘Nirvana's dirty guitar sound’;

Dirtyadverb

used for emphasis

‘a dirty great slab of stone’;

Dirtyverb

make dirty

‘she didn't like him dirtying her nice clean towels’;