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# dirtiness

«dirtiness» in Mova's school dictionary: **The state of being dirty: covered in mud, dust or germs** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (dirtiness, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The state of being dirty: covered in mud, dust or germs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dirtiness/#m1)

2) Being unfair or dishonest, as in a dirty trick (less common). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dirtiness/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In health and hygiene lessons dirtiness of hands or kitchens spreads germs; in stories it shows a messy or poor place; phrases: «the dirtiness of the water», «because of its dirtiness».

### examples

- The dirtiness of the river worried the scientists. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dirtiness/#x1)
- We were shocked by the dirtiness of the old shed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dirtiness/#x2)
- Dirtiness in a kitchen can make people ill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dirtiness/#x3)
- The dirtiness of my football kit made Mum groan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dirtiness/#x4)
- The inspector wrote about the dirtiness of the toilets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dirtiness/#x5)
- Washing your hands removes dirtiness you cannot even see. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dirtiness/#x6)
- Some people did not like the dirtiness of the game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dirtiness/#x7)

### note

Uncountable: no plural. Built from dirty + ness (y changes to i). More common words: dirt, filth, mess. Opposite: cleanliness or cleanness.

### In the corpora

- [Eczema often runs in families together with asthma and hay fever, and it is not catching or caused by dirtiness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/15-eczema-and-other-skin-troubles/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dirtiness» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dirtiness/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.