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adj. not cleaned with or as if with soap and water; "a sink full of unwashed dishes"

adj. of or associated with the great masses of people; "the common people in those days suffered greatly"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "his square plebeian nose"; "a vulgar and objectionable person"; "the unwashed masses"

bourgeois, conservative, materialistic

adj. conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality"

colloquial, conversational

adj. characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation; "wrote her letters in a colloquial style"; "the broken syntax and casual enunciation of conversational English"

common, vernacular, vulgar

adj. being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species"

humble, low, lowly, modest, small

adj. low or inferior in station or quality; "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings"

average, ordinary

adj. lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered; "average people"; "the ordinary (or common) man in the street"

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, fouled

adj. made dirty or foul; "a building befouled with soot"; "breathing air fouled and darkened with factory soot"

grubby

adj. infested with grubs

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, dust-covered

adj. covered with a layer of dust; "a dusty pile of books"

feculent

adj. foul with waste matter

filthy, foul, nasty

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

flyblown, squalid, sordid

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"

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"

mucky, muddy

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"

base, baseborn, humble, lowly

adj. of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense); "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly) birth"

ignoble, ungentle, untitled

adj. not of the nobility; "of ignoble (or ungentle) birth"; "untitled civilians"

noble

adj. of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times; "of noble birth"

august, grand, lordly

adj. of or befitting a lord; "heir to a lordly fortune"; "of august lineage"

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