• DIRTY

1. lutosus, coenosus (PROP.; SYN. in DIRT, s.): lutulentus (also figuratively): luto or coeno oblitus; obscenus (creating disgust when we see or hear of it; figuratively, persons, paintings, verses, etc.): immundus (not neat, not clean; opposed to mundus): spurcus (of uncleanness disgusting to the eye or nose; then figuratively = morally impure): sordidus (also figuratively, of one who is dirtily mean, and of low-minded men generally): squalidus (only PROP.): paedidus (offensively dirty in person; very rare, Petronius). Very dirty, sordium plenus; squalore sordidus; squaloris plenus (Cic., of a person): obsitus sordibus, or squalore, paedore horridus: To be dirty, sordere, squalere: to be very dirty, situ squalere: to become dirty, sordescere.

2. v. inquinare aliquid aliqua re: maculam facere in aliqua re (cause a spot of dirt on it): maculare (spot it; Plaut., Cato, Verg.). To dirty one’s self, se inquinare aliquare (e.g., sordibus, coeno).