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Definition of Soiled
1. Adjective. Soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime. "Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves"
Attributes: Cleanness
Similar to: Augean, Bedraggled, Draggled, Befouled, Fouled, Begrimed, Dingy, Grimy, Grubby, Grungy, Raunchy, Black, Smutty, Buggy, Cobwebby, Dirty-faced, Feculent, Filthy, Foul, Nasty, Flyblown, Sordid, Squalid, Greasy, Oily, Lousy, Maculate, Mucky, Muddy, Ratty, Scummy, Smudgy, Snot-nosed, Snotty, Sooty, Travel-soiled, Travel-stained, Uncleanly, Unswept, Unwashed
Also: Untidy
Antonyms: Clean
Derivative terms: Dirt, Dirtiness, Uncleanness
Definition of Soiled
1. Verb. (past of soil) ¹
2. Adjective. dirty ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Soiled
1. soil [v] - See also: soil
Lexicographical Neighbors of Soiled
Literary usage of Soiled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Improved Housewife, Or, Book of Receipts: With Engravings for Marketing by A. L. Webster (1853)
"Make soiled and heavy feather beds clean and light thus:—dip ... Repeat it, if
necessary The soiled part will be as clean as new. 713. ..."
2. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1856)
"Care must be had not to allow any linen to be washed which is soiled with the
... The process of maceration to which soiled clothes are usually subjected is ..."
3. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1856)
"Care must be had not to allow any linen to be washed which is soiled with the
... The process of maceration to which soiled clothes are usually subjected is ..."
4. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1898)
"closer inspection to be a gray and melancholy waste of soiled canvas, seamed with
patches. It is not, I am sure, an exaggeration to say that one-half of the ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... wliich seems to have been the ancestor of the present veil. The burse, which
is simply a cover used to, keep the corporal from being soiled ..."
6. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1898)
"closer inspection to be a gray and melancholy waste of soiled canvas, seamed with
patches. It is not, I am sure, an exaggeration to say that one-half of the ..."
7. Galateo: Or, A Treatise on Politeness and Delicacy of Manners by Giovanni Della Casa (1811)
"... A soiled Fowl. a Of a fowl, the prime parts are the wings, breast, and
merry-thought, and next to these the neck-bones and side-bones; ..."
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