look dirty
Frequency: 7.840.5 per million words
To have the appearance of being unclean.
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Examples (10)
- His clothes always look dirty, even when they're freshly washed.
- After playing in the mud, the children's faces looked very dirty.
- The windows have looked dirty for weeks; they really need a clean.
- You should wash the car; it's starting to look dirty.
- I hate it when my white sneakers start looking dirty.
- The old carpet began to look dirty no matter how many times we vacuumed it.
- Does this tablecloth look dirty to you, or is it just the lighting?
- The water from the old tap always looks a bit dirty at first.
- Even after a good scrub, the grout between the tiles still looked dirty.
- If you wear those light-colored pants to the park, they will look dirty in no time.