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'dirty-looking' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You could use it to describe a physical object that appears to be unclean. For example, "The sidewalk was covered in a layer of dirt, and the windows of the shop had a dirty-looking film over them."
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They were kind of dirty looking pebbles.
The colors were dark and, probably intentionally, a bit dirty looking.
Campbell talked about two to three "dirty looking stones", Anyah points out.
Mods were contemporary; they were cutting-edge while rockers were dirty looking, and that's never been appealing to me.
Campbell said she gave the "dirty looking stones" to a friend, Jeremy Ratcliffe, who at the time was the director of Mandela's children's charity.
7.45am: Last week the supermodel Naomi Campbell admitted accepting "dirty looking stones" after meeting the former Liberian leader Charles Taylor at a charity dinner in 1997.
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See that dirty-looking-guy walking down your street?
Wear scuffed white sneakers and a dirty-looking face.
Fin rot is a common aquarium ailment whose symptoms look like its name suggests: decaying, dirty-looking fins that seem to be falling apart and sometimes swelling at the base of the fin.
As the drops rolled down his foppish, unkempt and forever dirty-looking hair and onto his face, his bewilderment was tangible.
Plenty of people criticized the character's new look, which consists of creepy tattoos and dirty-looking grills.
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