Adjective, : children with grubby faces and sad eyes. ,grubby political tricks. From Dictionary.com.
There is, for some reason, something especially grim about pubs near stations, a very particular kind of grubbiness, a special kind of pallor to the pork pies. From Wordnik.com. [So long, and thanks for all the fish]
But cheaps shots and grubbiness befoul Olympus. From Wordnik.com. [So, Phelps photographed with a bong? A problem for endorsements? I have an idea.] Reference
This seems tailor-made to whip up the very grade grubbiness Abeles condemns. From Wordnik.com. [Linda Flanagan: Race to Nowhere?] Reference
The place looked more than lived in; it was somewhere between grubbiness and squalor. From Wordnik.com. [1968]
Cardiff was grubby by comparison – a grubbiness, like the castle, I had taken for granted. From Wordnik.com. [How things change « Anglican Samizdat] Reference
And we'll see if he can maintain his sense of being a bit elevated, a bit above the grubbiness of politics. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Clinton's Alamo] Reference
I put the stair gate across the kitchen door so that Jaya can't get in there because of the cat food and general grubbiness. From Wordnik.com. [tequilamonky Diary Entry] Reference
Europeans could stop imagining the EU as a Kantian utopia of perpetual peace, absolved from the grubbiness of worldly strife. From Wordnik.com. [Liebe Europäer] Reference
Someone in my position should always be able to compartmentalise the job; not let the grubbiness rub off on to his private life. From Wordnik.com. [Some by Fire]
If you illustrate this chapter or one like it, do not be misled by the grubbiness of the Maude and Mervin Wendell Theatrical Troupe. From Wordnik.com. [Centennial]
Paris Hilton always struck me as being named with especial aptness, being both expensive and tacky, with an offputting sheen of grubbiness. From Wordnik.com. [What could be better than the man who once pocketed a £21m bonus being called Diamond?] Reference
The harsh glare of the additional lights erased the studio's grubbiness, but exaggerated every break and hole in the old style acoustic tiles. From Wordnik.com. [Neurosurgical Intervention For Beginners] Reference
The kind that knows better because she's seen the world, is more liberal and enlightened than others, and isn't in it for the grubbiness of money. From Wordnik.com. ["I don’t want to attack [Ingrid Betancourt], but the truth is very savage."] Reference
Casting an eye on the grubbiness and typeface of the papers on the desk, I calculated the date of the news in question as being likely around 1750. From Wordnik.com. [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference
"But-" He stopped, close enough now to take in the grubbiness of her clothes, the hole in the sleeve of her coat and the tattered ends of her stock. From Wordnik.com. [Drums of Autumn]
There were some nice apartments too, hidden inside the grubbiness of the uniform tower blocks and made comfortable with Western electronics and full bookshelves. From Wordnik.com. [Alastair Humphreys: For Russia With a Smile] Reference
London grubbiness is the gauge of a lawyer's respectability. From Wordnik.com. [Three Men and a Maid] Reference
For in London grubbiness is the gauge of a lawyer's respectability. From Wordnik.com. [Three Men and a Maid]
And since other people have talked about grubbiness, I'm going to as well. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Posts Across MetaFilter] Reference
He was a ruthless-looking young man, with an unsavoury grubbiness about him. From Wordnik.com. [St Peter's Finger]
But that did not detract from the pervading sensation of disgustful grubbiness. From Wordnik.com. [Patsy] Reference
His assertion was undercut by the obvious elderliness and grubbiness of the phone. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
The shameless tawdriness, the grubbiness, the tattered sinfulness, the soullessness of the place. From Wordnik.com. [Cat & Mouse]
But she did not care; she was getting ready to break the cocoon, and its grubbiness didn't much matter. From Wordnik.com. [The Job An American Novel] Reference
Even a metro rail journey, in non-airconditioned grubbiness, costs a fraction of what it does in Delhi. From Wordnik.com. Reference
My hands were hard and rough and only needed some grubbiness and hacking about the nails to pass muster. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Standfast] Reference
I've written before about Main Street's lovable funky grubbiness standing in the inevitable path of gentrification. From Wordnik.com. [ongoing] Reference
The upshot of all this grubbiness is that Triesman has been replaced as the chairman of England's 2018 bid by Geoff. From Wordnik.com. [Sport news, comment and results | guardian.co.uk] Reference
It was M.D. who sent me there by scolding me into realization of my grubbiness four years ago; I want to have my honeymoon there. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Journeys On] Reference
Her ability to find these epiphanies does echo Chekov's, which is all the more jolting, given the tabloid grubbiness of the lives in "Too Much Happiness.". From Wordnik.com. Reference
The miracle squamato-gunge, contaminated with microspheres representing dirt, shed the grubbiness simulant every time it stuck to something - while still sticking itself firmly. From Wordnik.com. [The Register] Reference
"How you have lied to me about the grubbiness of your work!. From Wordnik.com. [Jewel Weed] Reference
X. was a small boy at school, "you are neither Wise nor Wily; you combine the innocence of a Baby with the grubbiness of a. From Wordnik.com. [The Clue of the Twisted Candle] Reference
Schlampigkeit; frowziness, grubbiness, slatternliness, slouchiness, slovenliness, sluttery, sluttishness. From Wordnik.com. [von Storch on MBH "Shoddiness" « Climate Audit] Reference
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