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Definition of grubby in English: grubbyadjectivegrubbier, grubbiest ˈɡrʌbiˈɡrəbi 1Covered with dirt; grimy. the grubby face of a young boy Example sentencesExamples - But the wax has dripped all over the place, leaving some seats looking rather grubby.
- Love is marred by the grubby ring he left round the bath, the dirty pants on the bedroom floor, the washing you asked him to hang out left screwed up in the washing machine.
- Where once there was a certain pride in grubby fingernails, now hard labour seems to be a dirty word.
- However, if your lounge has become grubby from an accumulation of different stains it should first be treated with talcum powder.
- Babies are, of course, far happier in a grubby jumpsuit covered in mud and drool than in a frilly dress festooned with ribbons.
- Who knows, I might even wash the car, which is looking decidedly grubby.
- And sometimes I got a rather grubby toffee too.
- Instead, we could all walk around like we did in the 1970s, with dirty glasses and grubby faces, and be happy.
- The room has blank, unpainted walls, and a grubby green carpet covering the floor.
- She was wearing a rather grubby and patched brown dress and was barefoot.
- You turn up a bit grubby, with a dusty old backpack, and they look rather alarmed.
- Yes they are a bit grubby at times but that was my only concern.
- With a friendly smile she welcomed me into what looked like her (slightly grubby) living room.
- We are guided through a world where much is shabby and grubby, inhabited by characters who barely communicate with one another.
- How shocking, then, to see this once-magnificent interior reduced to a shabby, grubby mess.
- I was met at the door by a small, benign looking lady in a slightly grubby white coat.
- Shabby, grubby and stale, even visiting friends from other shared houses would wonder out loud how we could tolerate living there.
- For eleven months its grubby surface was covered by a makeshift blue wall, screening the leisurely metamorphosis behind.
- Frankly, with the new roof there to offer contrast, the slates looked pretty grubby.
- He explained how life on the march was pretty grubby and smelly.
Synonyms dirty, grimy, filthy, unwashed, stained, soiled, smeared, spotted, muddy, dusty, sooty messy, scruffy, shabby, untidy, unkempt, slovenly, slatternly, sordid, squalid unhygienic, unsanitary, insanitary informal mucky, cruddy, yucky, icky British informal manky, grotty, gungy Northern Irish informal bogging literary befouled, besmirched, besmeared, begrimed rare feculent - 1.1 Involving dishonest or disreputable activity; sordid.
the grubby business of selling arms Example sentencesExamples - What does any of this all-consuming grubby affair have to do with the business of politics?
- Perhaps as a society we believe the grubby hands of business should be kept off our organs, especially in death.
- In truth, I came away from the date feeling a bit grubby.
- Pragmatists, sensing a bottomless well of grubby dishonesty, have called for an amnesty, hoping to encourage names to be named.
- This week I want to look a little more at the process by which grubby politics is seamlessly transformed into dirty journalism.
Derivatives adverb The ‘reality’ they defend is, in fact, the ontology of a depressive: grubbily empirical, nothing ever adding up to more than the sum of its parts, nothing worth getting worked up about, nothing connecting with nothing. Example sentencesExamples - In New York, too, business is often done grubbily.
- They were muscular, dressed grubbily, and held bottles in their hands.
nounˈɡrʌbɪnəsˈɡrəbinəs When, for instance, people protested against the rudeness, grubbiness and incompetence of train and bus conductors (a popular subject), the route, the date and time, and details of offensive behaviour were always given. Example sentencesExamples - He, on the other hand, seems to believe that a certain amount of grubbiness in politics is only to be expected and tolerated.
- He is at odds with the grubbiness of what he does to the point of getting obsessed with the cleanness of his immediate surroundings: when his medication accidentally disappears down a drain, he cleans his apartment with a toothbrush.
- In the way the French can and Hollywood doesn't, this young woman was portrayed in all her sordid rags and grubbiness, yet somehow without quite obscuring the enchanting creature of stunning sexuality beneath.
- But at times it is the moments of personal grubbiness that stand out.
Rhymes chubby, clubby, cubby, hubby, nubby, scrubby, shrubby, stubby, tubby Definition of grubby in US English: grubbyadjectiveˈɡrəbēˈɡrəbi 1Dirty; grimy. the grubby face of a young boy Example sentencesExamples - The room has blank, unpainted walls, and a grubby green carpet covering the floor.
- How shocking, then, to see this once-magnificent interior reduced to a shabby, grubby mess.
- Frankly, with the new roof there to offer contrast, the slates looked pretty grubby.
- Where once there was a certain pride in grubby fingernails, now hard labour seems to be a dirty word.
- Babies are, of course, far happier in a grubby jumpsuit covered in mud and drool than in a frilly dress festooned with ribbons.
- With a friendly smile she welcomed me into what looked like her (slightly grubby) living room.
- And sometimes I got a rather grubby toffee too.
- But the wax has dripped all over the place, leaving some seats looking rather grubby.
- She was wearing a rather grubby and patched brown dress and was barefoot.
- Love is marred by the grubby ring he left round the bath, the dirty pants on the bedroom floor, the washing you asked him to hang out left screwed up in the washing machine.
- Shabby, grubby and stale, even visiting friends from other shared houses would wonder out loud how we could tolerate living there.
- For eleven months its grubby surface was covered by a makeshift blue wall, screening the leisurely metamorphosis behind.
- I was met at the door by a small, benign looking lady in a slightly grubby white coat.
- We are guided through a world where much is shabby and grubby, inhabited by characters who barely communicate with one another.
- Instead, we could all walk around like we did in the 1970s, with dirty glasses and grubby faces, and be happy.
- You turn up a bit grubby, with a dusty old backpack, and they look rather alarmed.
- He explained how life on the march was pretty grubby and smelly.
- Who knows, I might even wash the car, which is looking decidedly grubby.
- Yes they are a bit grubby at times but that was my only concern.
- However, if your lounge has become grubby from an accumulation of different stains it should first be treated with talcum powder.
Synonyms dirty, grimy, filthy, unwashed, stained, soiled, smeared, spotted, muddy, dusty, sooty - 1.1 Disreputable; sordid.
grubby little moneylenders Example sentencesExamples - Perhaps as a society we believe the grubby hands of business should be kept off our organs, especially in death.
- This week I want to look a little more at the process by which grubby politics is seamlessly transformed into dirty journalism.
- In truth, I came away from the date feeling a bit grubby.
- What does any of this all-consuming grubby affair have to do with the business of politics?
- Pragmatists, sensing a bottomless well of grubby dishonesty, have called for an amnesty, hoping to encourage names to be named.
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