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Definition of Dirtiness
1. Noun. The state of being unsanitary.
Specialized synonyms: Feculence, Dirt, Filth, Grease, Grime, Grunge, Soil, Stain, Befoulment, Defilement, Pollution, Dinge, Dinginess, Dustiness, Griminess, Grubbiness, Smuttiness, Sootiness, Sordidness, Squalidness, Squalor
Generic synonyms: Sanitary Condition
Antonyms: Cleanness
Derivative terms: Dirty, Dirty, Unclean, Unclean
2. Noun. The state of containing dirty impurities.
3. Noun. Obscenity in speech or writing.
Generic synonyms: Bawdiness, Lewdness, Obscenity, Salaciousness, Salacity
Derivative terms: Dirty, Smutty
Definition of Dirtiness
1. n. The state of being dirty; filthiness; foulness; nastiness; baseness; sordidness.
Definition of Dirtiness
1. Noun. The state or quality of being dirty. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dirtiness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Dirtiness
Literary usage of Dirtiness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life in Mexico During a Residence of Two Years in that Country (1843)
"... ento — Crowded party — French cooks — Mexican cook — State of household — Yew
Year's day — Mass — Dirtiness of the churches, &c. ..."
2. Seven Years in South Africa: Travels, Researches, and Hunting Adventures by Emile Holub (1881)
"... chief—A spy—Menon's administration of justice —Pilfering propensities and
dirtiness of the ... dirtiness ..."
3. Russia by Astolphe Custine (1855)
"Ugliness and Dirtiness of the Women of the Lower Classes —their Disproportion in
Point of Number, and its Result. —Asiatic Manners.—Russian Politeness. ..."
4. Scottish Reminiscences by Sir Archibald Geikie (1904)
"Dirtiness of the streets. Clubs. Hutton and Black in Edinburgh. A feast of snails.
Royal Society Club. ..."
5. My Diary in India, in the Year 1858-9 by Sir William Howard Russell (1860)
"Picturesque dirtiness.—Arab Crafts and their crews.—Exhausting heat. IF the bazaar
of Cairo is still one of the most " Oriental-looking " covered ways in ..."
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