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Meanings of grime in English
Genre of electronic music originating in the United Kingdom.
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Examples for "dirty"
Examples for "dirty"
1
Use this form as a quick-and-dirty way to create a new file.
2
He stammered; his mouth wobbled; he covered it with a dirty hand.
3
I looked at the letter; it was very dirty, and I said:
4
The stocks of many of the rifles were wrapped in dirty rags.
5
Some of them are dirty in their persons and in their habits.
1
I would rather bring up a colly than a man.
2
Even a Times subscriber can get colly-wobbles & the lady phoned the Times asking what had gone wrong.
3
PC's give me the colly-wobbles, too.
4
Of the sixteen other collies the majority were sables of divers shades.
5
Mr. W. is always training two or three collies to be Lassie.
1
In the depths of this yard stood a low, iron-roofed, smoke-begrimed building.
2
Fallion saw that his beard was not gray, merely begrimed with ash.
3
They were begrimed and charred, as if they had survived a fire.
4
His face was begrimed with dirt, his clothes were torn and untidy.
5
All defiling, smoke-begriming factories were to be banished to an innocuous distance.
1
So I hurried on, splashing and bemiring myself in the byways of the Bourbonnais.
2
There they came upon a pitiful group of humanity, bemired.
3
Steed and rider were bemired up to the eyes.
4
He is morally bemired, bespattered, and trod under foot, until he remains a lifeless carcase.
5
The bemired figure straightened to strike a parade-ground formal salute then grinned, his clay-caked cheeks cracking.
Usage of grime in English
1
Ahead of the BBC Proms, we're asking if grime has gone global.
2
There certainly appears to be a renewed interest in grime in 2014.
3
The shop grime lingers on his hands and in his broken nails.
4
In summary: It's been a big year for this Leeds-based grime-punk five-piece.
5
And it means that stains and grime breakdown, when exposed to light.
6
Anyway, I came home to realise that not all grime is equal.
7
And the right bar soap, made with grime-attracting botanicals, can be moisturizing.
8
And I could not stand the grime and jeans a minute longer.
9
After long shifts, his hands are blackened with grime from countless surfaces.
10
The more people go out raving, the more grime's producers are appreciated.
11
I stand under the hot spray and let the grime wash away.
12
I smelled the brine of sweat, felt its grime on my arms.
13
Wessner grew ghastly under his grime and broke into a staggering run.
14
Mrs. Adams was a very capable person who hated dust and grime.
15
Each day I wipe from my pillow a fine layer of grime.
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The collar of his down jacket was clammy with sweat and grime.
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Grime through the time
Grime across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common