un-dirty

un-dirty (comparative more un-dirty, superlative most un-dirty)

1. Alternative form of undirty
   • 1938 April 3, The Daily Argus-Leader, Sioux Falls, S.D., page 6:

     An Un-Dirty Story —Down at the laundry, —When all the work’s done, —We swim in the washers, —It’s all good, clean fun! —We take off our oxfords, —And throw out the duds, —And have our refreshments— —A scuttle of suds.

   • 1947 October 22, Mirion Horne, “Book Review […] Chloe Marr / By A. A. Milne”, in Carbondale Free Press, second section, page three:

     We found it a fairly readable book, refreshingly un-dirty in an age of over[-]sexed literature.

   • 1964 December 10, Tom Rettew, “Review: Thurber Carnival”, in Wilmington Morning News, volume 166, number 140, Wilmington, Del., page 14:

     Equally often, by Thurber’s words, drawings and thought, it draws you backward into the world of un-dirty humor, leaning you backward in your seat to laugh at the world and at yourself.

   • 1968 December 15, Rick Winter, “Hair Again”, in Calendar, Los Angeles Times, page twenty:

     Having just walked out of the Aquarius and having just sat through a grand and wonderful experience, I feel I must share it with you . . . First, if anyone says the nude scene in "Hair" is dirty I'll hit 'em in the mouth. No, I won't—I have too much love for that after seeing the show. But I might take my clothes off just to prove how UN-dirty it can be.

   • 1969 January 31, Rod Odell, “An Inglorious Moment: Goodbye, Mr. Chips”, in The Herald-News, Passaic-Clifton, N.J., page 3:

     It’s the middle of World War II and this un-dirty dozen is about to go overseas on an assortment of nebulous assignments.

   • 1970 March 13, Peter Benchley, “Erich Segal: Modern Renaissance Man”, in The Austin American, volume 59, number 213, Austin, Tex., page A28:

     Segal has made his biggest public splash with his new novel, “Love Story,” a saccharine, simple and aggressively un-dirty tale of a young couple.

   • 1971 June 27, John Alexander, “McKuen And Walsh Help Premiere ‘Scandalous John’”, in Sunday Herald-Leader, volume 35, number 26, Lexington, Ky., page 58:

     It is good family fare in the best sense - not merely because it is un-dirty (which in itself is no particular virture) but because it touches on good things, on things of substance and reality, which is the only kind of cleaniness worth the use of the word.