How to Use dirtbag in a Sentence

dirtbag

noun
  • In short, it’s a dirtbag’s paradise, with costs to match.
    — Robert Annis, Outside Online, 2022-12-20
  • The first is more music, for the indie dirtbags in the house.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Things are looking up for pop’s favorite sad sack dirtbag!
    — Shaad D’souza, Pitchfork, 2024-03-29
  • Check out some of our favorite tales from Chouinard’s dirtbag days below.
    — Maya Silver, Outside, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Everyone looks like a dirtbag just by virtue of being so stifled in polyester.
    — Will Nevin, OregonLive.com, 2018-01-26
  • The other was his older brother, who’s a bit of a dirtbag himself.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 2024-03-10
  • And though his own upbringing was supportive, he’s had his share of dirtbags to draw on.
    — Melena Ryzik, New York Times, 2023-06-22
  • Below, shop 6 grungy knits to channel your inner teenage dirtbag, too.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 2022-10-24
  • Dirtbike gear for fashion dirtbags seems to have firmly arrived.
    — Liz Raiss, GQ, 2018-05-22
  • The show revolves around a group of imbecilic dirtbags, each one more inept than the next.
    — Yohana Desta, HWD, 2017-09-17
  • Because right now, being loudmouth dirtbags might just be the only thing this team has going for it.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • A lot of people were still dying and the sponsors got scared of the sport and left it to be this dirtbag, on the edge [hobby].
    — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 2024-03-15
  • Big Thing 1: Andy is a cheating dirtbag who, by the end of the hour, is on his way out of Kristen’s life.
    — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 2024-08-01
  • Maybe that’s why the husband figure (Scoot McNairy) is portrayed as a dirtbag.
    — Armond White, National Review, 2024-12-13
  • Uncle Grant is certainly much scarier than the dirtbag that is Lord Lovat.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The dirtbag who accidentally became a billionaire and then gave it all away reminds us that some paradoxes are meant to be lived with, not solved.
    — Kyle Westaway, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Colin Jost is two years out of Harvard and looks like a total Staten Island dirtbag.
    — Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 2024-06-05
  • Stone portrays himself as a dandy and a dirtbag, a sleazeball who embodies the rage and drive for fame that sits at the heart of the worst corners of American politics.
    — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 2018-08-24
  • On Wednesday, Geraldo Rivera, the slimeball dirtbag with the mustache the size of a sweatpants leg, tweeted:
    — Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 2017-05-18
  • But her videos play less like gossip vlogs and more like the work of an NPR pundit crossed with a true-crime enthusiast and a dirtbag podcaster.
    — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 2022-01-25
  • The Mannheim, Germany label knows a delightful dirtbag garage punk band better than anyone, so why not listen to 46 of some of the best in one place?
    — SPIN, 2022-04-28
  • To record these stories—and render a portrait of the world’s wealthiest dirtbag—Gelles retraced Chouinard’s many journeys across his 86 years.
    — Maya Silver, Outside, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The book is a nonfiction account of a team of addicts, ex-cons and semi-reformed dirtbags whose members recapture a piece of their innocence on the baseball diamond.
    — Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times, 2023-05-09
  • While this is clearly Theron’s show, McAvoy deserves notice for turning in another one of his splendid dirtbag characters.
    — Joanna Robinson, VanityFair.com, 2017-03-13
  • The vignettes in Dirtbag Billionaire unequivocally show that Chouinard was once the dirtbag to end all dirtbags—and remains so at heart.
    — Maya Silver, Outside, 20 Oct. 2025
  • From dirtbags to gym rats With origins in Alpine exploration, rock climbing developed as a sport in late-19th century Europe.
    — Kelli María Korducki, HubSpot, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Because what seems like a brutal display of unrequited love was the second-smartest decision Rose made in the whole movie, right after leaving that nude portrait in the safe as a checkmate to her dirtbag fiancé.
    — Alexis Jones, Marie Claire, 2018-11-22
  • The dirtbag former Mets and Phillies player (and terrible financier) then proceeded to spend the rest of the evening tweeting incessantly skeezy stuff at Dunham.
    — Gabriella Paiella and Jessica Roy, The Cut, 2017-09-08
  • Harjo understands better than all but a few of his star’s previous collaborators how to weaponize Hawke’s gift for playing talkative dirtbags who are equal parts insufferable and charming.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2025
  • One of the earliest signs that the new Supergirl will be an uninspired slog is the overload of blobby alien dirtbags, grotesque creatures that look like they were refused admission to the Mos Eisley Cantina in the original Star Wars movie.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 24 June 2026

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