dirty
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6.4
- adjective
- /ˈdɜrti/
:
anotado
- After reviewing the draft, the editor returned it with dirty edits that needed correcting.
Examples
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She glanced at the dirty pages of the report, noting all the changes made in the margins.
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For instance, the system you describe sounds like it is supporting a 'dirty' or 'phantom' hot start capability.
Blog text (31) -
In a more dramatic scene, he might pull out his sister's last, creased, dirty letter, the one he's been carrying with him for four years.
Blog text (31) -
"Wild cards," said Mother softly, shuffling the thumbed and dirty deck.
Fiction book (1991) -
My first NaNoWriMo taught me how to get through the first draft—no matter how dirty and ugly it was.
Blog text (30) -
I didn't want to risk airing our family's dirty laundry for millions to see, only to have any unpleasantness edited out later.
Blog text (31) -
The manuscript was filled with numerous dirty marks and annotations after the author's revisions.
Synonyms
1
8.1
Marked with many corrections and scribbles and not clean or ready
1
5.6
A page or document that has corrections and notes on it
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
To talk about private, embarrassing things in front of other people
Compounds
12
6.0
Secret dishonest actions that harm or make someone look bad, often in politics and business
- NSFW
10
7.7
A weapon that explodes and spreads radioactive material to contaminate an area, not a nuclear bomb
- Offensive
8
8.4
An older man who makes sexual comments or touches younger people when they do not want him to
- Offensive
2
9.2
A secret campaign by a government against suspected opponents using kidnapping, torture, and murder
- Informal
1
7.9
Private family or personal matters that embarrass people if the public finds out
- Offensive
A short secret trip for a romantic or sexual meeting, often an affair
How Altered
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Dirty copy (a manuscript with many marks) comes from the sense of being 'covered' or 'stained'—a page full of corrections looks 'dirty' and is hard to read.