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SOILED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime
Example:
Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
unwashed (not cleaned with or as if with soap and water)
unswept (not having been swept)
uncleanly (habitually unclean)
travel-soiled; travel-stained (soiled from travel)
sooty (covered with or as if with soot)
snot-nosed; snotty (dirty with nasal discharge)
smudgy (smeared with something that soils or stains; these words are often used in combination)
scummy (covered with scum)
ratty (dirty and infested with rats)
mucky; muddy (dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck)
maculate (spotted or blotched)
lousy (infested with lice)
greasy; oily (smeared or soiled with grease or oil)
flyblown; sordid; squalid (foul and run-down and repulsive)
filthy; foul; nasty (disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter)
feculent (foul with waste matter)
dirty-faced (having a dirty face)
cobwebby (covered with cobwebs)
buggy (infested with bugs)
black; smutty (soiled with dirt or soot)
begrimed; dingy; grimy; grubby; grungy; raunchy (thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot)
befouled; fouled (made dirty or foul)
bedraggled; draggled (limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud)
Augean (extremely filthy from long neglect)
Also:
untidy (not neat and tidy)
Attribute:
cleanness (the state of being clean; without dirt or other impurities)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb soil
Context examples:
Down below where he lived was the ignoble, and he wanted to purge himself of the ignoble that had soiled all his days, and to rise to that sublimated realm where dwelt the upper classes.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Martin, after a few instructions, sorted the great heaps of soiled clothes, while Joe started the masher and made up fresh supplies of soft- soap, compounded of biting chemicals that compelled him to swathe his mouth and nostrils and eyes in bath-towels till he resembled a mummy.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Her training warned her of peril and of wrong, subtle, mysterious, luring; while her instincts rang clarion-voiced through her being, impelling her to hurdle caste and place and gain to this traveller from another world, to this uncouth young fellow with lacerated hands and a line of raw red caused by the unaccustomed linen at his throat, who, all too evidently, was soiled and tainted by ungracious existence.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
