Dirty and Rough

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Dirty

Dirty adjective - Marked by wet and windy conditions.
Usage example: they were unknowingly sailing into dirty weather
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Rough is a synonym for dirty in calm topic. In some cases you can use "Rough" instead an adjective "Dirty", when it comes to topics like unpleasant.
Nearby Words: dirt, dirtiness, dirtying, dirtily

Rough

Rough adjective - Marked by wet and windy conditions.
Usage example: at least wear a raincoat if you're going out into that rough weather
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Dirty is a synonym for rough in calm topic. Sometimes you can use "Dirty" instead an adjective "Rough".
Nearby Words: roughly, roughness, roughen, roughening, roughed

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  • Opposing Sports Team: Texas seems to be set up this way, it is even explicitly stated that they tend to play rough and dirty and drew many cards.
    Source: Web Original / AH World Cup
  • Series / Dexter Badass Bookworm: Dexter is intelligent, but in the few cases in which he has to get his hands dirty and rough someone up, he can.
    Source: Series / Dexter
  • The rough and tough card players pull guns on the dealer, but Plain and Peanut calm things down ("The dirty dealer meant no harm...") and at the end, they're revealed to have been playing Go Fish, with one of the baddies downcast when his request for threes is rejected.
    Source: Most Common Card Game
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