dirty-faced
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4.1
- adjective
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con cara sucia
- The little girl ran into the house, dirty-faced from playing in the mud outside.
- dirty-faced kid
Examples
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He turned to go back to the cart and saw two boys, dirty-faced urchins, lifting out of the cart a rolled-up strip of canvas and a quilt.
Fiction book (1992) -
The last picture is the girls and me; big sis is Big Bird, little sis is Dorothy (don't you love how her hair kept falling out?) and I am a forgotten doll from underneath your bed, hair matted, dirty-faced... and I am angry you have forgotten about me... very angry.
Blog text (9) -
When we got to the top, we were faced with the dirty-faced white boys.
Fiction book (1993) -
"Little dirty-faced kid with a saucy manner?" Santa always remembered the children.
Fiction book (1991) -
And there she was, standing in front and above him, a dirty-faced little girl who had used the promise she had wrung from him to call him up now.
Fiction book (1991) -
" A girl stared up at her, dirty-faced, tousle-headed; a stranger.
Fiction book (1994) -
The last picture is the girls and me; big sis is Big Bird, little sis is Dorothy (don't you love how her hair kept falling out...) and I am a forgotten doll from underneath your bed, hair matted, dirty-faced... and I
Blog text (9) -
But everyone in the crowd—even the children—seemed to greet the arrival of fourteen unescorted, dirty-faced adolescents as a sign of trouble.
Fiction book (2002) -
After a long day of playing soccer, the boys returned home, dirty-faced and laughing.
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The puppy came running back, dirty-faced and wagging its tail after digging in the yard.
Synonyms
282
1.0
Very dirty and covered with things that smell bad
233
1.0
Not tidy or clean, with things in the wrong place
183
1.5
Very dirty and covered with mud or dirt
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1.1
Covered in mud and hard to walk on
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2.7
Very dirty and bad to touch or smell
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3.7
Covered in thick dirt that makes something look and feel dirty
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1.4
Dirty and needing to be cleaned
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1.3
Dirty and covered in dust, food, or grease
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7.0
Dirty and untidy, often wet after being in rain or mud
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8.6
Dirty and unpleasant, like a place with sticky floors
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4.1
Having soft dirty marks that make a surface look blurred
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5.6
Covered with a thin dirty film on the surface
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2.5
Not clean because it has mud or grease on it
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5.6
Covered in black soot or dirt
A place or surface that is wet, muddy and looks dirty and messy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word dirty-faced is made from the two words dirty meaning 'not clean' and face meaning 'the front of the head'. So dirty-faced describes someone whose face is covered in dirt.