dirtiness

  • 121raunchiness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Slang. The quality or state of being obscene: bawdiness, coarseness, dirtiness, filthiness, foulness, grossness, lewdness, obscenity, profaneness, profanity, scurrility, scurrilousness, smut tiness, vulgarity,… …

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  • 122scurrilousness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. Harsh, often insulting language: abuse, billingsgate, contumely, invective, obloquy, railing, revilement, reviling, scurrility, vituperation. See PRAISE. 2. The quality or state of being obscene: bawdiness,… …

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  • 123uncleanliness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The condition or state of being dirty: dirtiness, filth, filthiness, foulness, griminess, grubbiness, smuttiness, squalor, uncleanness. See CLEAN …

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  • 124unwholesomeness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Impure condition: defilement, dirtiness, foulness, impurity, pollution, uncleanness. See CLEAN …

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  • 125vulgarness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The quality or state of being obscene: bawdiness, coarseness, dirtiness, filthiness, foulness, grossness, lewdness, obscenity, profaneness, profanity, scurrility, scurrilousness, smuttiness, vulgarity. Slang: raunch,… …

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  • 126dirty — c.1500, from DIRT (Cf. dirt) + Y (Cf. y) (2). Earlier dritty (late 14c.). Meaning smutty, morally unclean is from 1590s. Of colors, from 1690s. As a verb, from 1590s. Dirty linen personal or familial secrets is first recorded 1860s. Dirty work in …

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  • 127shoe — O.E. scoh shoe, from P.Gmc. *skokhaz (Cf. O.N. skor, Dan., Swed. sko, O.Fris. skoch, O.S. skoh, M.Du. scoe, Du. schoen, O.H.G. scuoh, Ger. Schuh, Goth. skoh). No known cognates outside Gmc., unless it somehow is connected with PIE root …

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  • 128degree of soil — amount of dirtiness …

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