Adjective : a down-and-dirty election campaign.    From Dictionary.com. 

That is going to be an ugly, down-and-dirty campaign.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 8, 2008] Reference

McOndo wants down-and-dirty realism about individuals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remedios The Beauty Is Alive And Well] Reference

This just seems like another typical down-and-dirty Hollywood story.    From Wordnik.com.  [Focus Features is Confident in Milk's Marketing Strategy « FirstShowing.net] Reference

HAMMER: We ` ll get some of those down-and-dirty details in that memoir.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 26, 2006] Reference

Wood got involved in a down-and-dirty lawsuit with the Cooke capitalists.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hacker Crackdown]

I've started entertaining doing some real down-and-dirty historical research.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2010-01-01] Reference

Marshall hasn't lived in the down-and-dirty atmosphere that Fosse became an artist in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Girls & Guns] Reference

He is skilled in down-and-dirty politics, and this kind of leak is right up his alley.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firedoglake » Bush Authorized Libby NIE Release to Press] Reference

It needs painstaking, down-and-dirty work at the school, on the estate and in the home.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

Perhaps the crucible of Goldman Sachs was no match for down-and-dirty New Jersey politics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beau Friedlander: The Obama Referendum: Nothing to See Here] Reference

Instead he sat down at a workstation and wrote a kludge -- a down-and-dirty software program.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forgetfulness] Reference

Theater: Some of my old "partners in grime" from the down-and-dirty road are on the Internet.    From Wordnik.com.  [View from the Northern Border] Reference

My assessment of “down-and-dirty” peer review was regarding the comments, not the articles.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Second Look at USHCN Classification « Climate Audit] Reference

Which concludes the down-and-dirty discussion concerning whether culture includes sports or not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles Victor Tucker III (a.k.a. Chongo) On the Street] Reference

Not the pretty stuff, but the down-and-dirty deadly kind that got a person banned from tournaments.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Midnight Hour] Reference

The remake, while competently made, lacks the down-and-dirty look and intense feel of the original.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last House on the Left (2009)] Reference

The CAG moved on to the down-and-dirty details of the maneuvers they would be flying later that day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Battlestar Galactica] Reference

Ray was under strict orders to assemble the best people he could find for a down-and-dirty field team.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Killing Hour]

With a life as disastrous as Garland's, there's nothing inappropriate about down-and-dirty pathography.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wrong End Of The Rainbow] Reference

By contrast, like it or not, the World Cup is pure, raw, down-and-dirty unadulterated sport at its best.    From Wordnik.com.  [As Soccer Grows, Passions Rise For World Cup] Reference

President Obama has opted for a down-and-dirty war strategy in search of some at least minimalist form of success.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Engelhardt: Going for Broke] Reference

We were doing it again, more down-and-dirty detective work, hoping for clues in the absence of a single hard lead.    From Wordnik.com.  [7th Heaven]

This industry harbors some down-and-dirty tactics, which were exposed by the recent spate of class-action lawsuits.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Megabucks Marts Arrive] Reference

That was a problem in Cambodia — officers tended to stay behind and let their men do the down-and-dirty fighting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rogue Warrior]

Now some pundits say McCain has only himself to blame, because he followed the Karl Rove playbook of down-and-dirty tactics.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2008] Reference

Nor does the financial community have the inclination, the incentives or the economic interest for such a down-and-dirty job.    From Wordnik.com.  [TOXIC Paper] Reference

Friends say Cisneros fears a down-and-dirty statewide campaign, but he may be hard pressed to ignore the party's call this time.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Texas Pull On Cisneros] Reference

Rest assured of one thing: even before the first bot is shot, a down-and-dirty, low-intensity conflict is already well underway.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frida Berrigan: Cyberscares About Cyberwars Equal Cybermoney] Reference

It's hard to believe that the tall, svelte Ms. Trump is the down-and-dirty, gravy-guzzlin 'blue-collar gourmand she claims to be.    From Wordnik.com.  [How an Uptown Girl Gets On: QVC, Foreman Grills, Chocolate] Reference

As she freely concedes in her dishy, down-and-dirty new documentary, Truth or Dare, she is not the world's greatest singer or dancer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madonna Lets It All Hang Out] Reference

They offer glimpses into the down-and-dirty way history is thrashed out in the ideological trenches that historical movies never show you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ireland Minus the Blarney] Reference

Now, for some, the internet world is simply a collection of more properties to be used as leverage in down-and-dirty business transactions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art Brodsky: Our Open Internet Under Siege] Reference