| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | 1. To contaminate the reputation of: befoul, besmear, besmirch, bespatter, blacken, cloud, denigrate, smear, smudge, smut, soil, spatter, stain, sully, taint, tarnish. Idioms: give a black eye to, sling (or throw) mud on. See ATTACK, CLEAN. 2. To make dirty: befoul, begrime, besmirch, besoil, black, blacken, defile, smudge, smutch, soil, sully. See CLEAN. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Covered or stained with or as if with dirt or other impurities: black, filthy, grimy, grubby, smutty, soiled, unclean, uncleanly. See CLEAN. 2. Offensive to accepted standards of decency: barnyard, bawdy, broad, coarse, Fescennine, filthy, foul, gross, lewd, nasty, obscene, profane, ribald, scatologic, scatological, scurrilous, smutty, vulgar. Slang : raunchy. See DECENT. 3. Violently disturbed or agitated, as by storms: heavy, raging, roiled, roily, rough, rugged, stormy, tempestuous, tumultuous, turbulent, ugly, violent, wild. See CALM.
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