down-and-dirtyadjective
uk/ˌdaʊn.ənˈdɜː.ti/us/ˌdaʊn.ənˈdɝː.t̬i/US informalDown-and-dirty behaviour is not pleasant or honest:
a down-and-dirty political campaign
Something that is down-and-dirty is shocking, often because it is connected with sex:
He likes his films down-and-dirty.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Dishonest
- bad faith
- be rotten to the core idiom
- be up to no good idiom
- bent
- cowboy
- dubious
- false
- finagle
- fishy
- fly-by-night
- malfeasance
- mendacious
- misleading
- perjure
- rich
- underhand
- unreliable
- unscrupulous
- unsporting
- weasel
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