That makes one unclean; corrupting, infecting.
Don't put that in your mouth, dear. It's dirty.
Anything that is dirty.
I had to get started on the trays. […] I started emptying it from the bottom, putting the dirties in the water. Then I could put the clean ones in the empty spaces to dry while I pulled more dirties from the next shelf up.
From Middle English dirti, alteration of earlier dritti, equivalent to dirt + -y. Cognate with Middle Low German drēterich (“dirty”). See also drite.
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To stain or tarnish (somebody) with dishonor.
To debase by distorting the real nature of (something).