汚い
きたない
Also written 穢い
Meanings
- い-adjective dirty; filthy; foul; unclean
- disordered; messy; untidy; poor (e.g. handwriting)
- indecent (language, etc.); dirty; vulgar; coarse
- dastardly; mean; base; underhanded
- stingy; greedy
Kanji
- 汚 dirty. Read as きたない.
Example sentences
- 汚い部屋の掃除をしなさい。
You should clean your dirty room. - 汚い手で会社を乗っ取ったものの、腹心だと思っていた部下に裏切られ、因果応報だね。
When the trusted confidant of the person who conducted a hostile takeover of the company betrayed him, it was a sort of retributive justice. - 汚い犬が庭に入ってくるのが見えました。
I saw a dirty dog coming into the garden. - 汚い下着を人前で洗うな。
Don't wash your dirty linen in public. - まあ、なんて汚い客なんでしょう。
Gosh, what a dirty customer!
Common phrases
Words containing 汚い
- 小汚い (こぎたない) somehow dirty
- 口汚い (くちぎたない) foul-mouthed
- 汚い戦争 (きたないせんそう) Dirty War (period of state terrorism in Argentina; 1976-1983)
And 8 more.