"dirty look" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: en-au-dirty look.ogg [Australia] Forms: dirty looks [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} dirty look (plural dirty looks)
  1. (idiomatic) An unpleasant or disdainful look or expression, often directed at someone. Tags: idiomatic Synonyms: black look, death glare, death stare, evil eye, shit eye, stank eye, stink eye Related terms: mean-mug Translations (unpleasant look): ondt blik (Danish), onde øjne (Danish), mulkaisu (Finnish), ruma katse (Finnish), murhaava katse (Finnish), regard noir [masculine] (French), regarder de travers (French), scheeler Blick [masculine] (German), drochshúil [feminine] (Irish), occhiataccia [feminine] (Italian), wzrok bazyliszka [masculine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-dirty_look-en-noun--wRZZfLc Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "word": "evil eye"
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          "sense": "unpleasant look",
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          "word": "death glare"
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          "word": "evil eye"
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      "sense": "unpleasant look",
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    },
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      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "unpleasant look",
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      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "unpleasant look",
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      "sense": "unpleasant look",
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      "word": "regard noir"
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      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "unpleasant look",
      "word": "regarder de travers"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "unpleasant look",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "scheeler Blick"
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      "sense": "unpleasant look",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "drochshúil"
    },
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      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "unpleasant look",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "occhiataccia"
    },
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