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Adjectives (7)
dirty
adj. unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign"
flyblown, squalid
adj. foul and run-down and repulsive; "a flyblown bar on the edge of town"; "a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town"; "squalid living conditions"; "sordid shantytowns"
squalid, seedy, seamy, sleazy
adj. morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly; "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"- James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal"
Fuzzynyms (34)
base, mean, scurvy, contemptible, currish, meanspirited, mean-spirited
adj. having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality; "that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"- Edmund Burke; "taking a mean advantage"; "chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"- Shakespeare; "something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics"
ignoble
adj. completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose; "something cowardly and ignoble in his attitude"; "I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part"- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
unwholesome
adj. detrimental to physical or moral well-being; "unwholesome food"; "unwholesome habits like smoking"
battered, bedraggled, beat-up, beaten-up, broken-down, dilapidated, ramshackle, tumble-down, unsound
adj. in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack"
ragged, tatty, frayed, moth-eaten, ratty, shabby, tattered
adj. showing signs of wear and tear; "a ratty old overcoat"; "shabby furniture"; "an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains"
base, mean, scurvy, contemptible, currish, meanspirited, mean-spirited
adj. having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality; "that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"- Edmund Burke; "taking a mean advantage"; "chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"- Shakespeare; "something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics"
corrupt, crooked
adj. not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
Synonyms (58)
corrupted, debased, vitiated
adj. ruined in character or quality
corruptible, bribable, dishonest, venal
adj. capable of being corrupted; "corruptible judges"; "dishonest politicians"; "a purchasable senator"; "a venal police officer"
reprobate, depraved, immoral, perverted
adj. marked by immorality; deviating from what is considered right or proper or good; "depraved criminals"; "a perverted sense of loyalty"; "the reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat"
praetorian, pretorian
adj. characteristic of or similar to the corruptible soldiers in the Praetorian Guard with respect to corruption or political venality; "a large Praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious...and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble"- Arthur M.Schlesinger Jr.
putrid
adj. morally corrupt or evil; "the putrid atmosphere of the court"
Augean
adj. extremely filthy from long neglect
bedraggled, draggled
adj. limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud; "the beggar's bedraggled clothes"; "scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts"
befouled
adj. made dirty or foul; "a building befouled with soot"; "breathing air fouled and darkened with factory soot"
grubby, begrimed, dingy, grimy, grungy
adj. thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen"
besmeared, smeared, smirched, smudged, smudgy
adj. smeared with something that soils or stains; these words are often used in combination; "oil-smeared work clothes"; "hostile faces smirched by the grime and rust"- Henry Roth; "ink-smudged fingers"
bespattered, spattered, splashed
adj. spattered or spotted with dirt or filth; often used in combination; "dingy bespattered walls"; "a grease-spattered floor"; "a besplashed coach"; "mud-splashed trouser legs"
buggy
adj. infested with bugs
dusty
adj. covered with a layer of dust; "a dusty pile of books"
fecal, feculent, faecal
adj. foul with waste matter; of or relating to feces
foul, filthy, nasty
adj. disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter; "as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a room"
lousy
adj. infested with lice; "burned their lousy clothes"
maggoty
adj. spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies; "flyblown meat"; "a sack of maggoty apricots"
muddy, mucky
adj. dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck; "muddy boots"; "a mucky stable"
scummy
adj. covered with scum; "the scummy surface of the polluted pond"
snotty, snot-nosed
adj. dirty with nasal discharge; "a snotty nose"; "a house full of snot-nosed kids"
travel-soiled, travel-stained
adj. soiled from travel; "travel-soiled clothes"
unwashed
adj. not cleaned with or as if with soap and water; "a sink full of unwashed dishes"
discredited, damaged
adj. being unjustly brought into disrepute; "a discredited politician"; "her damaged reputation"
ill-famed, infamous, notorious
adj. having an exceedingly bad reputation; "a notorious gangster"; "the tenderloin district was notorious for vice"
shady, louche
adj. of questionable taste or morality; "a louche nightclub"; "a louche painting"
unrespectable
adj. unworthy of respect
unrespected
adj. accorded no respect
Antonyms (6)
clean
adj. free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits; "children with clean shining faces"; "clean white shirts"; "clean dishes"; "a spotlessly clean house"; "cats are clean animals"
trim, orderly, neat, well-kept, shipshape
adj. of places; characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder; "even the barn was shipshape"; "a trim little sailboat"
sordid
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