dirty-faced

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dirty-faced - having a dirty face; "a crowd of dirty-faced ragamuffins surrounded him"

dirty, soiled, unclean - soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime; "dirty unswept sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty slums"; "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his dirty feet on the clean sheet"; "wore an unclean shirt"; "mining is a dirty job"; "Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves"

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'Rum creeters is women,' said the dirty-faced man, after a pause.

'I thought not.' Here the dirty-faced man fell into ecstasies of mirth at his own retort, in which he was joined by a man of bland voice and placid countenance, who always made it a point to agree with everybody.

'When they're in a good humour,' interposed the dirty-faced man.

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"Haven't seen a bow-legged, dirty-faced little devil of a six-year- old loot kid around here anywhere, have you?"

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The purblind day was feebly struggling with the fog when I opened my eyes to encounter those of a dirty-faced little spectre fixed upon me.

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One dirty-faced man, I think he was a boot-maker, used to edge himself into the passage as early as seven o'clock in the morning, and call up the stairs to Mr.