Adjective, : children with grubby faces and sad eyes. ,grubby political tricks. From Dictionary.com.
It was early and Mann was dressed rather grubbily. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
He rubs at them but they still show up grubbily in the pores of the paper. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Stories]
The advantages for Obama are several: firstly, and most obviously (if also most grubbily) he removes a potential 2012 opponent from the fray. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons for 2012 from 1992] Reference
Returning the same day, I noticed in the railway carriage an unattractive-looking young man, not very poorly though grubbily dressed, with a pimply face and a muddy dark complexion. From Wordnik.com. [A Raw Youth] Reference
The living-room in the lads 'hostel, in sharp contrast to the girls', was plantless, without cushions and was grubbily scattered with newspapers, empty beer cans, pornography, dirty plates and muddy boots. From Wordnik.com. [Longshot]
Behind those actions are a set of entrenched interests, including the senior military hierarchy, which have invested for decades in Mubarak's rule of Egypt's grubbily intertwined realms of political and economic influence. From Wordnik.com. [Hosni Mubarak is gone, but can Egypt's digital revolution unite the country?] Reference
The thinking is that they should be pure reminiscences and there has long been a sentiment that fact-checking your memoir diminishes it as a high-literary form, that it's somehow grubbily journalistic to be sure of yourself. From Wordnik.com. [The Trouble With Memoirs] Reference
"Excuse me, " said Xenophilius, and he strode over to the machine, seized grubbily tablecloth from beneath an immense number of books and papers, which all tumbled onto the floor, and threw it over the press, somewhat muffling the loud bangs and clatters. From Wordnik.com. [Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows]
“Excuse me,” said Xenophilius, and he strode over to the machine, seized grubbily tablecloth from beneath an immense number of books and papers, which all tumbled onto the floor, and threw it over the press, somewhat muffling the loud bangs and clatters. From Wordnik.com. [Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]
They will carry on merrily raising funds, organizing conferences, whizzing round the country on their junkets, preaching the True Word to receptive audiences, basking in the adoration of the faithful, collecting their book royalties, and disdaining to do anything as grubbily tedious as actual scientific research — behaving, in short, just as they have for the past several years. From Wordnik.com. [Derbyshire at National Review on Kitzmiller - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
David Allen writes Sunday, Wednesday and Friday, grubbily. From Wordnik.com. [Inland Valley Daily Bulletin Most Viewed] Reference
Ridley's movie is smart and sane, shot flat and even grubbily. From Wordnik.com. [Hollywood Elsewhere] Reference
Instead the aliens' commander, Anna, is grubbily obsessed with the teenage son of. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
There, he meets other orphaned children who grubbily root around for spare robot parts to bring back to their Fagin-like father figure, Hamegg (Lane). From Wordnik.com. Reference
It would be a little too messy, a little too hippy, and all that tenting, all that stalling, arranged across a series of fields, would seem grubbily inappropriate. From Wordnik.com. [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Art and ethics do not have a straightforward relationship, they have a grubbily convoluted one: the great art of the Renaissance was paid for by usury, vice and corruption. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
I'm not quibbling with the re-write, which I believe is standard practice, but the grubbiness of the Guardian grubbily re-citing it, like some perpetual feedback loop of self-congratulatory solipsism. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
He's a poor kid in a candy store who can't stop grabbing-sometimes grubbily and viciously-at everything life offersbut he does love her and she must have something to keep a man like Sam in love with her. From Wordnik.com. [Pepys' Diary] Reference
It would be grotesque if the new Parliament were to pass legislation which will impoverish millions of people who are looking forward to a well-earned retirement while, at the same time, grubbily hanging on to their own generous pension plans. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
It was indeed a shoddy, unscrupulous business waged by City - and grubbily successful to the point where not only did Lescott put in a transfer request but also pleaded unfit to perform the duties he recently undertook in a four-year contract which, one imagines, would have read like a fantasy to most of the credit-crunched nation. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
"firstly, and most obviously (if also most grubbily) he removes a potential 2012 opponent from the fray.". From Wordnik.com. [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference
It’s that they look lazily derivative, and they’ll make New York look like every other grubbily transparent financial hub in the world. From Wordnik.com. [Condos of the Living Dead] Reference
Professionalism once meant grubbily self-serving. From Wordnik.com. [New Statesman] Reference
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