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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And the spirit of cutpurse abandon has been superseded by an atmosphere which is often sullen, often merely dirtily proletarian, often obscure.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

Sloven, sluv′n, n. a man carelessly or dirtily dressed:—fem.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various