SOILED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does soiled mean? 

• SOILED (adjective)
  The adjective SOILED has 1 sense:

1. soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime

  Familiarity information: SOILED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOILED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime

Synonyms:

dirty; soiled; unclean

Context example:

Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves

Similar:

Augean (extremely filthy from long neglect)

unwashed (not cleaned with or as if with soap and water)

unswept (not having been swept)

uncleanly (habitually unclean)

travel-soiled; travel-stained (soiled from travel)

sooty (covered with or as if with soot)

snot-nosed; snotty (dirty with nasal discharge)

smudgy (smeared with something that soils or stains; these words are often used in combination)

scummy (covered with scum)

ratty (dirty and infested with rats)

mucky; muddy (dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck)

maculate (spotted or blotched)

lousy (infested with lice)

greasy; oily (smeared or soiled with grease or oil)

flyblown; sordid; squalid (foul and run-down and repulsive)

filthy; foul; nasty (disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter)

feculent (foul with waste matter)

dirty-faced (having a dirty face)

cobwebby (covered with cobwebs)

buggy (infested with bugs)

black; smutty (soiled with dirt or soot)

begrimed; dingy; grimy; grubby; grungy; raunchy (thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot)

befouled; fouled (made dirty or foul)

bedraggled; draggled (limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud)

Also:

untidy (not neat and tidy)

Attribute:

cleanness (the state of being clean; without dirt or other impurities)

 Context examples 

We made a curious figure, had anyone been there to see us—all in soiled sailor clothes and all but me armed to the teeth.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

‘Waiter,’ I cried, ‘my box has been soiled! Remove it!’

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Each put on one nice light glove, and carried one soiled one, and all pronounced the effect "quite easy and fine".

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Also, and quite as a matter of course, as though in his life he had already made a thousand toilets, he proceeded to lick away the dry clay that soiled him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

And I've got it, now, in my last grasp, and I'll not have it pawed over and soiled by a lot of swine.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Riding along on the train, near to the line between California and Oregon, he chanced to look out of the window and saw his unsociable guest sliding along the wagon road, brown and wolfish, tired yet tireless, dust-covered and soiled with two hundred miles of travel.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

To prevent community-associated MRSA: • Practice good hygiene • Keep cuts and scrapes clean and covered with a bandage until healed • Avoid contact with other people's wounds or bandages • Avoid sharing personal items, such as towels, washcloths, razors, or clothes • Wash soiled sheets, towels, and clothes in hot water with bleach and dry in a hot dryer

(MRSA, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

A few minutes later, filling the truck with soiled clothes for the washer, Joe spied the hotel manager's shirt.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Why, she wanted a pair of blue boots for Sallie's party, so she just painted her soiled white ones the loveliest shade of sky blue you ever saw, and they looked exactly like satin, added Jo, with an air of pride in her sister's accomplishments that exasperated Amy till she felt that it would be a relief to throw her cardcase at her.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow—a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man, his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulder of his soiled blue coat, his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails, and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)