dirtily
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a word derived from
dirty.
Example Sentences
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He reminded us that a single artist could use vanguardism as mass culture’s minor seventh, that technical prowess was about dirtily programmed drum machines as much as it was about dazzling guitar fills.
From Slate ● Apr. 22, 2016
Always double check men aren't married and prepare for your enemies to fight dirtily, I learned at an early age.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 3, 2010
Among English observers there is a prevailing truism that Argentina had played dirtily The statistics suggest otherwise: Argentina committed 19 fouls to England's 33.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 2, 2010
And the spirit of cutpurse abandon has been superseded by an atmosphere which is often sullen, often merely dirtily proletarian, often obscure.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Most sincerely, by all that's sacred, I swear you may!——Yet have I been such a villanous plotter, that the charming sufferer will hardly believe it: although the proceeding be so dirtily low.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 by Samuel Richardson