dirtbagnoun [ C ]
/ˈdɜːt.bæɡ//ˈdɝːt.bæɡ/very informalan unpleasant person who has done something dishonest or unacceptable:
He's a cheating, lying dirtbag!
a person who is dirty and untidy:
I saw him dressed like a dirtbag.
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- "He's guilty, he's a dirtbag," said one man, who stood near the jail entrance.
- This stupid kid is taking the rap for his drug-dealing dirtbag of an older brother.
- She's no better than any other dirtbag criminal in this town.
- She lives with her three kids and her dirtbag boyfriend.
- The song went "I'm just a teenage dirtbag, baby."
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Unpleasant people in general
- a dog in the manger idiom
- a nasty piece of work idiom
- a tough/hard nut idiom
- a wolf in sheep's clothing idiom
- bad lot
- know-all
- know-it-all
- leech
- make sb's skin crawl idiom
- malcontent
- rotter
- runt
- sadist
- scum
- scumbag
- undesirables
- vermin
- villain
- villain of the piece idiom
- viper
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