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dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire

v. make soiled, filthy, or dirty; "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!"

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adj. unpleasantly stormy; "there's dirty weather in the offing"

adj. (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"

dirty, ill-gotten

adj. obtained illegally or by improper means; "dirty money"; "ill-gotten gains"

dirty, contaminating

adj. spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination; "the air near the foundry was always dirty"; "a dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout"

dirty, foul, marked-up

adj. (of a manuscript) defaced with changes; "foul (or dirty) copy"

dirty, dingy, muddied, muddy

adj. (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; "dirty" is often used in combination; "a dirty (or dingy) white"; "the muddied grey of the sea"; "muddy colors"; "dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair"

cheating(a), dirty, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike

adj. violating accepted standards or rules; "a dirty fighter"; "used foul means to gain power"; "a nasty unsporting serve"; "fined for unsportsmanlike behavior"

foul, dirty, unpleasant, filthy, nasty, abominable, beastly, vile

adj. disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter; "as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a room"

defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully, besmirch

v. charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone; "The journalists have defamed me!" "The article in the paper sullied my reputation"

smear, blur, smudge, smutch

v. make a smudge on; soil by smudging

fade, melt

v. become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly; "The scene begins to fade"; "The tree trunks are melting into the forest at dusk"

bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolour, decolorize, decolourize, decolorise, decolourise, discolorize, discolourise, discolorise

v. remove color from; "The sun bleached the red shirt"

blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify, black

v. make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened"

bedraggle, draggle

v. make wet and dirty, as from rain

racy

adj. designed or suitable for competing in a race

cloudy, muddy, mirky, murky, turbid

adj. (of liquids) clouded as with sediment; "a cloudy liquid"; "muddy coffee"; "murky waters"

abominable, detestable, execrable, odious

adj. unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes"; "consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke

hateful

adj. evoking or deserving hatred; "no vice is universally as hateful as ingratitude"- Joseph Priestly

aggressive, belligerent

adj. characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight; "aggressive acts against another country"; "a belligerent tone"

opponent, opposing

adj. characterized by active hostility; "opponent (or opposing) armies"

at loggerheads

adj. in a dispute or confrontation; "Sam and his parents were at loggerheads over the question of car privileges"

head-on

adj. characterized by direct opposition; "a head-on confrontation"

ill

adj. indicating hostility or enmity; "you certainly did me an ill turn"; "ill feelings"; "ill will"

unfriendly, inimical

adj. not friendly; "an unfriendly act of aggression"; "an inimical critic"

amerciable

adj. of a crime or misdemeanor; punishable by a fine set by a judge

banned, prohibited

adj. forbidden by law

bootleg, black, black-market, contraband, smuggled

adj. distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes"

criminal, felonious

adj. involving or being or having the nature of a crime; "a criminal offense"; "criminal abuse"; "felonious intent"

embezzled, misappropriated

adj. taken for your own use in violation of a trust; "the banker absconded with embezzled funds"

extrajudicial

adj. beyond the usual course of legal proceedings; legally unwarranted; "an extrajudicial penalty"

extralegal, nonlegal

adj. not regulated or sanctioned by law; "there were only extralegal recourses for their grievances"

hot

adj. having or dealing with dangerously high levels of radioactivity; "hot fuel rods"; "a hot laboratory"

illegitimate, illicit, outlaw(a), outlawed, unlawful

adj. contrary to or forbidden by law; "an illegitimate seizure of power"; "illicit trade"; "an outlaw strike"; "unlawful measures"

misbranded, mislabeled

adj. branded or labeled falsely and in violation of statutory requirements; "confiscated the misbranded drugs"

penal, punishable

adj. subject to punishment by law; "a penal offense"

under-the-counter, under the counter

adj. done or sold illicitly and secretly

unratified

adj. lacking legal authority; "the unratified Equal Right Amendment"

indecipherable, unclear, undecipherable, unreadable

adj. not easily deciphered; "indecipherable handwriting"

etiolate, etiolated, blanched

adj. (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light; "etiolated celery"

bleached, faded, washed-out, washy

adj. having lost freshness or brilliance of color; "sun-bleached deck chairs"; "faded jeans"; "a very pale washed-out blue"; "washy colors"

dulled, greyed

adj. deprived of color; "colors dulled by too much sun"; "greyed with the dust of the road"

drab, sober, somber, sombre

adj. lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan grey"; "children in somber brown clothes"

white, whitened

adj. (of hair) having lost its color; "the white hairs of old age"

raw

adj. brutally unfair or harsh; "received raw treatment from his friends"; "a raw deal"

severe, intemperate

adj. (of weather or climate) not mild; subject to extremes; "an intemperate climate"; "intemperate zones"

rainy

adj. (of weather) wet by periods of rain; "showery weather"; "rainy days"

clean, make clean

v. make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from; "Clean the stove!"; "The dentist cleaned my teeth"

wash

v. form by erosion; "The river washed a ravine into the mountainside"

purge

v. rid of impurities; "purge the water"; "purge your mind"

clean, unobjectionable

adj. (of behavior or especially language) free from objectionable elements; fit for all observers; "good clean fun"; "a clean joke"

decent

adj. conforming to conventions of sexual behavior; "speech in this circle, if not always decent, never became lewd"- George Santayana

clean, uncontaminating

adj. not spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination; "a clean fuel"; "cleaner and more efficient engines"; "the tactical bomb is reasonably clean"

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