Sentence examples for a dirty act from inspiring English sources

The play, which the Daily Telegraph described as "a loathsome sore unbandaged", "a dirty act done publicly" and "literary carrion", had been banned by the censors because of its depiction of marital infidelity and venereal disease.

When Ibsen's Ghosts was first produced in London in 1891, it was dismissed by one critic as "an open drain, a loathsome sore unbandaged, a dirty act done publicly".

The school even took out front-page advertisements in newspapers declaring: "Our school management and the owners have no link whatsoever with this dirty act".

Continual traffic on a dirty floor acts like the grit on sandpaper and can put little scratches in the floors finish.

"I tried to convince them to stop their dirty acts, but they would not," Ejaz said in an interview from his jail cell on April 27, the New York Times reported.

("Boy offers flower to girl, says he loves her; girl offers flower to boy, says she loves him. It leads to destruction. They engage in dirty acts in the name of love, wasting themselves in the process").

They say loud words but commit dirty acts".

It's like I didn't want to have to know him at all, to be burdened with one more person who I would be connected to for the rest of my life, someone who I might run into on the street and have to either feign interest in or completely ignore or, even worse, someone who would shun me so that no one would ever know what dirty acts went on in that basement fuck den.

"Fear of Flying" was a picaresque tale, a rant, a satire, a dirty joke, an act of rebellion, self-­discovery and a desperate cri de coeur.

A dirty, old canvas sheet acts as a partition so that Jenenzia can sleep with four of her seven grandchildren on the floor.

Catching unfaithful lovers in the act is a dirty job, but someone has to do it so everyone else can watch on national television.