It’s time to know all that is yucky, icky, mucky and manky

Today’s English
August 14th, 2017

If something is dirty, we say that it’s unclean, mucky, manky, untidy, soiled, defiled, foul and messed up. If we spread a liquid or substance and make something dirty, we may use the word “smear".
1.The room was so untidy and I couldn’t sit there.
2.She defiled her beauty by over makeup.
3.The floor has been soiled and needs a cleaning.
4.The children smeared the jam all over the sofa.
5.I can’t use these foul toilets. / Arun, have you messed up the whole room again?

If you play dirty, it means that you play tricks / use unfair or dishonest means to win.  Grubby hands refer to dishonest people and corrupt hands.

1.Don’t try to play dirty and win.
2.Don’t play dirty with me! Stop all your nonsense.
3.We should be careful that these files don’t fall into grubby hands.

What about dirty jokes? They are obscene, indecent, vulgar, offensive and naughty jokes that people disgust. If something is extremely unpleasantly dirty, we use the word “filthy".  Filthy or mucky pictures and videos are also sexually offensive ones.

1.Don’t play dirty jokes here.
2.If you post dirty /filthy pictures or videos, you will be removed from this WhatsApp group.
3.Most of the government public toilets are always filthy.
4.I still wonder how they live surrounded by these filthy conditions.

If you smear or tarnish somebody’s reputation, it means that you spoil their reputation.  You pollute nature and make it dirty and harmful.  You contaminate water and dangerous or poisonous substances are present in them. Unsanitary or insanitary places are those which are dirty and likely to cause diseases.

1.By these scandals, you can never tarnish my reputation.
2.Students became sick after drinking the contaminated water.
3.The unsanitary conditions around the hostel posed a great danger to the inmates.

If something is unpleasant to your eyes, especially colours, you can use the words yucky and icky. 
1.Drawing is good but the colours are so yucky and disgusting.
2.Who will like a car with this icky colour?

“We must clean the lens of our hearts to see the state of our souls. However, too often the former is too dirty to even know that the latter exists.”
-Craig D. Lounsbrough