Dirtbag is a colloquial term that is considered slang and can be used in written English, depending on the context and audience.
It is often used as a derogatory term to describe someone who is considered low-class, dirty, or disreputable. Example: The new employee was a complete dirtbag. He showed up to work late every day, didn't follow company policies, and caused trouble with his co-workers.
Jean Ralphio being the worst He perfected the art of being a dirtbag.
Even Begala, who is as staunch as Democrats come, doubts that Rove would engage in what he calls "dirtbag politics" on behalf of the Bush campaign.
Their characters, named Abbi and Ilana, are twenty-something stoners in New York — broke, horny, heedless, daffy, mostly benign, occasionally brilliant — who work crappy jobs, bump around town, get into mischief, and, with genial vulgarity and dirtbag charm, accidentally complicate their lives.
When Blodget first started blogging, he was assailed online as "scum," "a boldfaced liar," and a "dirtbag".
Like many dirtbag comedies, "Angry Boys" shares DNA with Ricky Gervais's version of "The Office"; the twins' grandmother (also played by Lilley), who runs a boys' detention center, seems, upon introduction, awfully David Brent-ish — she's a bully who insists that her subordinates love her.
This week, Emily Nussbaum writes about "dirtbag sitcoms," a television genre she sums up as "crass, confident comedies that feature idiotic characters but are not themselves idiotic," which include the animated high jinks of Archer and the ensemble genius of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," both of which air on FX.
Growing up on the north shore of Kauai, Hamilton was born into the classic dirtbag-surfer lifestyle.
"I never used to come to these things, I guess I was too tired and seen too many dirtbags," she later said.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet "To the outside world he's a secret, and to the inside world he's a different secret, and in each of these worlds he has secret colleagues — dirtbags and saints," writes Jeanne Marie Laskas in a GQ story about Special Agent Charles Hunt (who is so much of a secret that "Charles Hunt" is a pseudonym).
I had dinner with Douglas one night at Sushi Village, a longtime gathering place for Whistler's eminent dirtbags and snow-riding idols — a ski bum's Chasen's.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet "I never used to come to these things, I guess I was too tired and seen too many dirtbags," she later said.
