Definition of soiled Soiled

/sɔjˈld/ - [soyld] -

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Adjective

soiled - soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime; "dirty unswept sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty slums"; "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his dirty feet on the clean sheet"; "wore an unclean shirt"; "mining is a dirty job"; "Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves"
  dirty, unclean
  clean free of drugs; "after a long dependency on heroin she has been clean for 4 years"
  untidy not neat and tidy; "careless and untidy in her personal habits"; "an untidy living room"; "untidy and casual about money"
  cleanness without moral defects
  augean extremely filthy from long neglect
  draggled, bedraggled limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud; "the beggar's bedraggled clothes"; "scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts"
  befouled, fouled made dirty or foul; "a building befouled with soot"; "breathing air fouled and darkened with factory soot"
  begrimed, grimy, grungy, grubby, dingy, raunchy thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen"
  smutty, black marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words"
  buggy infested with bugs
  cobwebby covered with cobwebs
  dirty-faced having a dirty face; "a crowd of dirty-faced ragamuffins surrounded him"
  feculent foul with waste matter
  filthy, nasty, foul disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter; "as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a room"
  squalid, flyblown, sordid especially of reputation; "a flyblown reputation"
  greasy, oily smeared or soiled with grease or oil; "greasy coveralls"; "get rid of rubbish and oily rags"
  lousy infested with lice; "burned their lousy clothes"
  maculate spotted or blotched
  mucky, muddy dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck; "muddy boots"; "a mucky stable"
  ratty dirty and infested with rats
  scummy covered with scum; "the scummy surface of the polluted pond"
  smudgy smeared with something that soils or stains; these words are often used in combination; "oil-smeared work clothes"; "hostile faces smirched by the grime and rust"- Henry Roth; "ink-smudged fingers"
  snot-nosed, snotty dirty with nasal discharge; "a snotty nose"; "a house full of snot-nosed kids"
  sooty covered with or as if with soot; "a sooty chimney"
  travel-soiled, travel-stained soiled from travel; "travel-soiled clothes"
  uncleanly habitually unclean
  unswept not having been swept; "unswept floors"
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  • soiled (Adjective)
    dirty.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • soiled (imp. & p. p.)
    of Soil

Part of speech

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  • soiled, verb, past participle of soil (infinitive).
  • soiled, verb, past simple of soil (infinitive).

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