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Definition of Dirt ball
1. Noun. A person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dirt Ball
Literary usage of Dirt ball
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Senescence, the last half of life by Granville Stanley Hall (1922)
"be a mere microbe on our little dirt ball, which the high gods could hardly see
if the lentiform Milky Way were the object-glass of a celestial microscope. ..."
2. Robert Browning and Alfred Domett by Robert Browning, Frederic George Kenyon, Joseph Arnould (1906)
"... potent for his size, Pushing tail-first by every road that's wrong The dirt-ball
of his musty rules along— His tiny sphere of grovelling sympathies— Has ..."
3. Iroka: Tales of Japan by Kinnosuké Adochi (1900)
"... does not have any more clouds to hide behind, nor the stars and the moon any
more tears to shed than they do in any other quarter of this sad dirt-ball. ..."
4. The Destiny of the Soul: A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger (1889)
"... either imbued with that Gnostic contempt and hatred for matter which described
the earth as "a dirt-ball for the extrication of light-spirits," or from ..."
5. Literature of the Doctrine of a Future Life: Or, A Catalogue of Works by Ezra Abbot, William Rounseville Alger (1864)
"Hegel, either imbued with that Gnostic contempt and hatred for matter which
described tho earth as "a dirt-ball for the extrication of ..."
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