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'so dirty that' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when you want to express a comparison between two things, especially to emphasize how one is more extreme than the other. For example: "The room was so dirty that it looked like it hadn't been cleaned in months."
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If the jewelry is so dirty that have to wash the piece, you can moisten a toothbrush lightly and dip in a little toothpaste.
Her language is so dirty that it's almost charming, when it's not appalling.
"Undoubtedly the windows will be so dirty that no one will know who's the passenger".
The pool was so dirty that the water had turned bright green.
Mr. Fox has inherited a system so dirty that no amount of purging seems to cleanse it.
The girls' clothes were so dirty that they put on Smokey Joe's last two clean T-shirts.
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The article cites growing numbers of Chinese citizens who feel as if air pollution is a "very big problem," and points to incidents like a so-called "airpocalypse" in Beijing where the city was coated with "a thick, soupy concoction so dirty, so polluted, that day in China's capital turned to night".
The reason the water is so dirty, besides the stuff that's dumped in and bubbly, is the plumbing issues.
So dirty, in fact, that recently a mayor was ousted from office for mishandling garbage collection.
It has become so dirty and reviled that it is barely uttered in polite company these days.
"I looked so bad, so dirty, so raggedy that the missionary said: 'You're starting to look like a Yanomami,' and she gave me some clean clothes.
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