It's what we call dirtying the victim in this case.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 6, 2003] Reference

I can dirty my own hands, but I don't like the idea of dirtying yours. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Work and Win or, Noddy Newman on a Cruise] Reference

And Matunde was caught dirtying the well-water again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waketaurs] Reference

It's like, I don't know, dirtying society or something.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 29, 2006] Reference

Never once dirtying his hands with actual combat, oh, no.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elvenborn]

Or, for that matter, by dirtying this good lady's carpet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flash For Freedom]

Only waiting for a Deal he was free of dirtying his hands on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Bill Clinton deliberately undermining Obama?] Reference

Modise was a no-nonsense commander, unafraid of dirtying his hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Today] Reference

I didn't think about how many pans, pots and dishes I was dirtying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sher] Reference

But why not let a jury decide instead of dirtying the water for him?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call: L.A. Lakers Star Kobe Bryant At The Fo] Reference

When they made sure to save themselves from dirtying Asimov's three laws.    From Wordnik.com.  [MOVIE REVIEW: I, Robot] Reference

It was business that was prosecuting the war and dirtying the environment.    From Wordnik.com.  [GOOD Magazine: XXX CEO] Reference

It saves you going round, and besides it avoids dirtying up the front porch.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Murder Is Announced]

• A soup spoon to protect men with moustaches from dirtying their upper lip.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wacky or Wonderful? | Impact Lab] Reference

But NEWSWEEK FOCUS gives you tips the old-fashioned way: without dirtying its hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Big Tease] Reference

She would regard much of what the Circle did with distaste, as "dirtying her hands.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wizard Of London]

Can¡¯t have all those ¡¯88 Honda Civics dirtying up our Landscape of Plenty, oh no.    From Wordnik.com.  [kinaesthesia Diary Entry] Reference

But Amalisa was not readying herself for the feast by dirtying her dress in a storeroom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Hunt]

Instead of dirtying our urban sightlines, these almost-people could clean up our streets!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jilly Gagnon: A Modest Proposal, or How to Use Wasted Resources...Like the Elderly!] Reference

Travers extended two fingers and shook Ron's hand as though frightened of dirtying himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows]

Many men would have disdained dirtying their hands or simply not known how to use the tools.    From Wordnik.com.  [Temporary Wife]

Nuella pushed her long hair back out of sight and rubbed her face with her hands, dirtying it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragon's Kin]

Because of the heat they slept on top of the beds, not in them, dirtying only the pillowcases.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incubus]

Why can't the proletarians leave their galoshes downstairs instead of dirtying the staircase? '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart Of A Dog]

If I kept up this cycle of cereal and soup, I could eat for a week without dirtying another dish.    From Wordnik.com.  [I is for Innocent]

It also showed factories were not the only culprits in dirtying the air but they were major contributors.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

There is no game at all, and what there is is not worth dirtying your hands over — it is not full-grown.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Witch, and other stories] Reference

She flattened herself on the ground, dirtying her bold stripes, and touched the rocking faces with her own.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beloved]

People probably won't be surprised that from the very beginning, New Yorkers had a penchant for dirtying things up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scott Dodd: Don't Take Your Drinking Water for Granted this World Water Day] Reference

They weren't concerned that they were dirtying the linens; they were only concerned that I was washing it in public.    From Wordnik.com.  [Speech To The John F. Kennedy School Of Government] Reference

He hadn't even rolled up his sleeves, although he worked so carefully that there was no danger of dirtying them with oil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gorky Park]

If it was not the case Well, there was one Herald in the Circle who had no trouble with dirtying his hands with difficult jobs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exile's Valor]

The word Mr. Petzoldt stresses, namely "sauber," is used with children as an injunction to avoid dirtying themselves while playing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Playing Dirty] Reference

Then you came here, and further betrayed Bingtown, by dirtying its shores with slavery and undercutting its economy and way of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ship Of Destiny]

You want your country back from that "citizen of Kenya" who's dirtying up our lily White House with his jungle music and satin sheets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Seitzman: "I Want My Country Back!"] Reference