Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a dirty manner; foully; nastily; filthily.
- Meanly; sordidly; by low means.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a dirty manner; foully; nastily; filthily; meanly; sordidly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
dirty manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a sordid manner
- adverb in a filthy unclean manner
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Examples
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She tried and found dirtily and valiently ... but, she didn't win.
Tracking Poll: Obama opens up biggest lead ever over Clinton 2008
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In BP's case, those "dirtily together" were the company and its circle of allies: the compromised regulator, the friends in the White House, Justice Department and Pentagon, the hired guns on K-Street, the former top officials paid to sit on boards.
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In BP's case, those "dirtily together" were the company and its circle of allies: the compromised regulator, the friends in the White House, Justice Department and Pentagon, the hired guns on K-Street, the former top officials paid to sit on boards.
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What is the attraction to showing the waistline of your boxer shorts while your cuffs are dirtily dragging on the pavement?
Tracey D. Smith: Charm School 101 for the College Student Tracey D. Smith 2010
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But no kinks apart from talking rather dirtily to me.
The Sex Factor juliette 2009
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A dark ground is not colored black mostly and dirtily securely and much exchange is much with a sight and so much to sponge in with speeches to whittle.
Gertrude Stein greenintegerblog 2008
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Firstly the thought of you doing so excites me, but let's not forget the reason that we all ring these sorts of chat lines which is that I would particularly like to hear you talk dirtily to me which I think is an attractive and indeed, ultimately fundamental aspect of living in what we profess to be, although sadly doesn't always quite live up to the reality of, a free society.
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It seems those forces of monopoly murkiness are fighting back - dirtily:
The (Intellectual Monopoly) Empire Fights Back glyn moody 2008
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He was dirtily and meanly dressed, in a threadbare coat, once blue, reaching to his ankles and buttoned to his chin, where it vanished in the pale ghost of a velvet collar.
Little Dorrit 2007
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Seated inside is a dirtily dressed, inert, blind old man with a big paunch as his only asset.
What Sri Aurobindo wrote about community presages The Mother’s Auroville Charter Tusar N Mohapatra 2007
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