dirtily

comparative more dirtily · superlative most dirtily

1. In a dirty manner.

   She kens I like exceedingly, a dainty dish o' meat; But she cooks it up so dirtily, that a bit I canno' eat

   1810s, anonymous author, The Wicked wife (poem)

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   I expostulated, and desired that he should have his in a mug; affirming that I could not taste the liquid treated so dirtily.

   1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC

   The head servant of the establishment, a large, portly, soft-spoken mulatto, but very shabbily and dirtily dressed, seemed, for some reason or other, — perhaps from my politeness to him, — to take quite a fancy to me.

   1852, Richard Hildreth, The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive, Boston, Mass.: Tappan and Whittemore; Milwaukee, Wis.: Rood and Whittemore

   Antonyms: cleanly