Dirty and Pesky

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Dirty adjective - Not clean.

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Pesky and dirty are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pesky" instead an adjective "Dirty".

Nearby Words: dirt, dirtiness, dirtying, dirtily

Pesky adjective - Causing annoyance.

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Dirty and pesky are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Dirty" instead an adjective "Pesky".

After all, he was a very conservative German nationalist, and the Nazis promised to "reawaken" and more importantly unite Germany (good), get rid of those Dirty Communists and their Social Democratic fellow-travellers (good), and abolish those pesky unions (very good).

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