Dustier - English meaning

verb

Make dirty; pollute.

Usage examples:

The dangers of letting industry befoul the environment

adjective

Blackened with ingrained dirt.

Usage examples:

They stand in front of begrimed windows

verb

Blacken with ingrained dirt.

Usage examples:

The smoke of industry begrimes buildings

verb

Damage (someone's reputation).

Usage examples:

He had besmirched the good name of his family

verb

Past simple and past participle of besmirch

Usage examples:

His accusations were false, but they served to besmirch her reputation.

noun

Tea.

Usage examples:

I'm going to go and have a cup of char

verb

Partially burn so as to blacken the surface.

Usage examples:

A region charred by bush fires

verb

Work as a charwoman.

Usage examples:

She'd had to char and work in a grocery store to put herself through university

adjective

Of bad quality; worthless or offensive

Usage examples:

A cruddy book that's not worth reading

adjective

Consisting of or easily breaking into small fragments.

Usage examples:

The cheese has a sharp flavour and is crumbly and moist

noun

An old person.

Usage examples:

The high proportion of crumblies in the population

adjective

Breaking easily into small pieces

Usage examples:

Bread with a crumbly texture

adjective

Covered or marked with an unclean substance.

Usage examples:

A tray of dirty cups and saucers

adverb

Used for emphasis.

Usage examples:

A dirty great slab of stone

verb

Make dirty.

Usage examples:

She didn't like him dirtying her nice clean towels

adjective

Covered with or characterized by grime.

Usage examples:

The grimy industrial city

adjective

Dirty

Usage examples:

The child's face was grimy and streaked with tears.

adjective

Unpleasant and of poor quality.

Usage examples:

A grotty little hotel

adjective

Unpleasant or of bad quality

Usage examples:

A grotty little room

adjective

Covered with dirt; grimy.

Usage examples:

The grubby face of a young boy

adjective

Dirty or messy

Usage examples:

Grubby old clothes

adjective

Grimy; dirty.

Usage examples:

A dark and grungy basement

adjective

(of a person) feeling dirty and that you need to wash, or (of a thing) dirty

Usage examples:

After a 15-hour flight, i felt really grungy.

adjective

Inferior; worthless.

Usage examples:

He wanted recruits for his manky bee-keeping society

adjective

Used to describe an object that is unpleasantly dirty, usually because it is old or has been used a lot

Usage examples:

A manky tissue, manky old carpets

adjective

Covered with dirt or filth.

Usage examples:

He took off his mucky boots

adjective

Dirty

Usage examples:

Get your mucky feet off that chair!, don't walk all over my clean floor in your mucky boots., a muc…

adjective

Resembling or characteristic of powder in texture.

Usage examples:

When the package was opened, a powdery white substance fell out

adjective

Having the form of powder

adjective

Dirty and disagreeable.

Usage examples:

One of sydney's scungiest suburbs

verb

Cause (something) to become messily smeared by rubbing it.

Usage examples:

She dabbed her eyes, careful not to smudge her make-up

noun

A blurred or smeared mark on the surface of something.

Usage examples:

A smudge of blood on the floor

noun

A smoky outdoor fire that is lit to keep off insects or protect plants against frost.

Usage examples:

Discussions of the merits of various smudges at keeping bugs at bay

adjective

Dirty; stained.

Usage examples:

A soiled t-shirt

verb

Make dirty.

Usage examples:

He might soil his expensive suit

verb

Feed (cattle) on fresh-cut green fodder (originally for the purpose of purging them).

adjective

Covered with or coloured like soot.

Usage examples:

His olive skin and sooty eyes

adjective

Marked with spots.

Usage examples:

A spotty purple flower

verb

Mark or discolour with something that is not easily removed.

Usage examples:

Her clothing was stained with blood

adjective

Marked or discoloured with something that is not easily removed.

Usage examples:

A stained beer mat

adjective

(of a material or object) coloured by application of a penetrative dye or chemical.

Usage examples:

Stained timber floorboards

adjective

Dirty.

Usage examples:

The firm was fined for operating in unclean premises

adjective

Not clean or not pure and therefore likely to cause disease

Usage examples:

Unclean water, unclean kitchens, unclean thoughts/practices

adjective

Not cleaned of dust or dirt; left dusty.

Usage examples:

Woe betide any maid who left a corner undusted