Definitions
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- adjective having a dirty face
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Examples
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He saw Smudge, wild-haired and dirty-faced as always, sitting at a large oak table with scrolls spread out before him.
End of Time P. W. Catanese 2011
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It feels as though you have been in my heart forever, my dirty-faced little monkey boy, my chunkster, my Jib.
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Pure rage on the dirty-faced bird-flipper, famous cover of
I Cant Ghazal Dennis Mahagin 2011
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"Dramamine?" whispers a dirty-faced hustler, prince among all buskers, and young enough, anyone's son.
Float Like An Asterisk, Sting Like A Mote Dennis Mahagin 2011
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He saw Smudge, wild-haired and dirty-faced as always, sitting at a large oak table with scrolls spread out before him.
End of Time P. W. Catanese 2011
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Benicio Del Toro and his dead brother's girlfriend, Emily Blunt, are in the Royal Albert Hall having dinner, served by a bevy of dirty-faced urchins.
The Wolfman: Del Toro and Hopkins sink their teeth into each other 2010
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Sons of Anarchy creator on Emmy snub: "We are the dirty-faced outlaws"
Rescue Me's Peter Tolan: The Hollywood Foreign Press Association Is a "Bunch of Whores" 2010
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Sons of Anarchy creator on Emmy snub: "We are the dirty-faced outlaws"
Rescue Me's Peter Tolan: The Hollywood Foreign Press Association Is a "Bunch of Whores" 2010
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We are the dirty-faced outlaws who no one wants in their clean white town.
'Sons of Anarchy' cast has a few bleepin' words for Emmy voters 2010
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And if you think child labor didn't get any worse than dirty-faced children in Victorian shoe factories, well, you apparently haven't heard about ...
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