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quicker-and-dirtier

quicker-and-dirtier is the comparative form of quick-and-dirty.

Meaning of quick-and-dirty

Adjective

quick-and-dirty (comparative more quick-and-dirty, superlative most quick-and-dirty)

  1. (idiomatic) Done or constructed in a hasty, approximate, temporarily adequate manner, but not exact, fully formed, or reliable for a long period of time.
    • I can do a quick-and-dirty market analysis in time for the meeting tomorrow.
    Synonyms:
    slipshod

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Questions about quicker-and-dirtier

What is quicker-and-dirtier the comparative form of?
Quicker-and-dirtier is the comparative form of quick-and-dirty.

Words near quicker-and-dirtier in the dictionary

  1. quicker
  2. quicker on the draw
  3. quicker sighted
  4. quicker than a minnow can swim a dipper
  5. quicker than scat
  6. quicker-and-dirtier
  7. quicker-sighted
  8. quickest
  9. quickest on the draw
  10. quickest sighted
  11. quickest-and-dirtiest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quicker-and-dirtier (page history and authors); quick-and-dirty (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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