Adjective, : I shook his grimy hand. From Dictionary.com.
Yet, for all their griminess, they had human hearts and voices. From Wordnik.com. [Recent Developments in European Thought] Reference
I took a quick shower to wash away theme park griminess, and was on the road by 6. From Wordnik.com. [misspinkkate Diary Entry] Reference
They had to be made of dark fabrics with broken patterns to conceal their griminess. From Wordnik.com. [The Shape of Things to Come] Reference
So maybe it is something else completely different, or just the plain old griminess politicians do. From Wordnik.com. [Yvonne R. Davis: Blago's Personality Disorder?] Reference
Yet there was something restful in the monochrome of the dresses, the dull smoke-griminess of the station. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
The dull griminess of the village, so utterly dismal in the rain and fog of yesterday, had given place to something akin to cheerfulness. From Wordnik.com. [Sweetapple Cove] Reference
Thousands of people were walking past on Broadway, some disappearing down Wall Street into the curving, solemn griminess of the buildings. From Wordnik.com. [Manhattan Is My Beat]
Collar he had none, for the griminess of that he wore last night had necessitated its being thrown aside; round his throat was a dirty handkerchief. From Wordnik.com. [New Grub Street] Reference
Only the squirrels, charcoal to light gray of color before the application of the spell, could now revel in their natural griminess, and they chose not to do so. From Wordnik.com. [A Triumph of Souls]
He ignores the griminess he feels because the little water they have has to be carried from three kays to the north and does not even try to shave or wash, but merely takes a long swallow from his water bottle. From Wordnik.com. [The Magi'i Of Cyador]
Altogether the dilapidated condition of the University buildings, the gloominess of the corridors, the griminess of the walls, the lack of light, the dejected aspect of the steps, the hat-stands and the benches, take. From Wordnik.com. [The Wife] Reference
A spot upon a clean palm is more conspicuous than a diffuse griminess over all the hand. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.] Reference
You are nice and fresh when you cut the grass, but at the end you have a little griminess to you. From Wordnik.com. [Every Morning Quarterback] Reference
"You are nice and fresh when you cut the grass, but at the end, you have a little griminess to you.". From Wordnik.com. [azcentral.com | news] Reference
The movie's gritty, grainy look is intentional, and the picture shows it all off for maximum griminess. From Wordnik.com. [DVD Verdict] Reference
There were other refugees from lower Manhattan heading up, too - men, women, in varying states of griminess. From Wordnik.com. [pf.org] Reference
They were all exactly alike, in shape, in size, in griminess, and in the parched and sickly look of the plants and grass. From Wordnik.com. [A Pair of Clogs] Reference
Then he got into his engineer's -- dungarees, touched up his face and hands to the required griminess, and sallied forth. From Wordnik.com. [The Drums of Jeopardy] Reference
And while 'Kiss is lyrically on point, the griminess that made much of the Lox / D-Block's catalog enjoyable in the first place is largely missing. From Wordnik.com. [Morning Sun Home RSS] Reference
'You would probably object to their treatment of you as much as the countess objected to the uupleasant griminess of the too-realistic coal galleries. From Wordnik.com. [Philistia] Reference
His very griminess seemed but an earnest of his steadfast purpose, and suited her present mood of utter disillusion with the artistic and the beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [The Upas Tree A Christmas Story for all the Year] Reference
Altogether the dilapidated condition of the University buildings, the gloominess of the corridors, the griminess of the walls, the lack of light, the dejected aspect of the steps, the hat-stands and the benches, take a prominent position among predisposing causes in the history of. From Wordnik.com. [The Wife, and other stories] Reference
There is, then, not only the foulness engendered by human lungs breathing in the narrowest and most crowded of quarters, but the added foulness of dirt of every degree and order, overlaid and penetrated by this deposit of fine soot; the result a griminess that has no counterpart on the face of the earth. From Wordnik.com. [Prisoners of Poverty Abroad] Reference
And the sun can shine there sometimes; and not so many miles from the very centre of the town, you can escape from the heavy pall of smoke-filled air, into fresh and picturesque country, whose beauties, to my thinking, strike one all the more vividly from the force of contrast with the ugliness and griminess which you cannot forget are so near. From Wordnik.com. [Robin Redbreast A Story for Girls] Reference
And furthermore, it is one mighty difference between them and us, that every man and woman on our side of the water has a working-day suit and a holiday suit, and is occasionally as fresh as a rose, whereas, in the good old country, the griminess of his labor or squalid habits clings forever to the individual, and gets to be a part of his personal substance. From Wordnik.com. [Our Old Home A Series of English Sketches A Series of English Sketches] Reference
"They took the thrucks for the Armoured Thrain," recounted Kildare, with a radiant smile illuminating a countenance of surpassing griminess, "an 'they rode to widin range, an' got off their hairies, an 'dhropped in a volley just to insinse them they took to be squattin' down inside them insijious divizes, into what they would be gettin 'if they put up the heads av them.". From Wordnik.com. [The Dop Doctor] Reference
How television was the way post-griminess industrial society chose to cope with free time. From Wordnik.com. [Planet GNOME] Reference
"But night will take all the ugliness into its arms and hide it; the sordidness and griminess will disappear and fairyland will come forth for a playground. From Wordnik.com. [Ethel Morton's Enterprise] Reference
There’s a baroque futurism to Destiny, a sense of lost grandeur and griminess that really makes the characters feel like interlopers aboard a once-great vessel. From Wordnik.com. [Stargate Universe: Taking stock of the Syfy show one season in] Reference
Mr. Rann’s leathern apron and subdued griminess can leave no one in any doubt that he is the village shoemaker; the thrusting out of his chin and stomach and the twirling of his thumbs are more subtle indications, intended to prepare unwary strangers for the discovery that they are in the presence of the parish clerk. From Wordnik.com. [Adam Bede] Reference
Soon I lost the blue-eyed baby, and there came in his place a sturdy little freckle-faced chap, with a distinct dislike for water as a cleansing agent, who stoutly declared that washing his hands was a great waste of time, for they were sure to get dirty again; which seems to be reasonable, and it is a wonder that people have not taken this fact into account more when dealing with the griminess of youth. From Wordnik.com. [The Next of Kin Those who Wait and Wonder] Reference
The market-houses, at this season, show the national taste for heavy feeding, -- carcasses of prize oxen, immensely fat, and bulky; fat sheep, with their woolly heads and tails still on, and stars and other devices ingeniously wrought on the quarters; fat pigs, adorned with flowers, like corpses of virgins; hares, wild-fowl, geese, ducks, turkeys; and green boughs and banners suspended about the stalls, -- and a great deal of dirt and griminess on the stone floor of the market-house, and on the persons of the crowd. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1.] Reference
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