For these efts are nothing else but the waterbabies who are stupid and dirty and will not learn their lessons and keep themselves clean … What was somebody to make of this faux-naif twaddle who was not only not a dear little man, but a girl tall for her age, who had never seen an eft, a vivarium or a stickleback?
Within days, Ezra is novelizing like a man possessed, which of course he is: "Strange how much pleasure he'd found in writing a stupid little dirty book; it had actually reawakened his joy in literature, reminded him why he'd gone to graduate school in the first place".
All my life, I have heard only one story about California Indians: godless, dirty, stupid, primitive, ugly, passive, drunken, immoral, lazy, weak-willed people who might make good workers if properly trained and motivated.
A dirty, cheap, stupid and vulgar ghetto-blaster.
Solina came to me, really angry and said, "Please tell your friends we are not dirty or stupid.
In January 1867, Florence Nightingale wrote a letter to Sir Thomas Watson, president of the Royal College of Physicians, saying she was shocked to find nursing was often left to "those who were too old, too weak, too drunken, too dirty, too stupid or too bad to do anything else".
"At worst, we are no more dirty, lazy, stupid, criminal, or immoral than yourselves.
He has also been accused of playing "dirty" and "stupid" by opponents who feel that he occasionally takes unnecessary liberties with opposing players.
