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Meanings of grimy in English
Synonyms
Examples for "dingy"
Examples for "dingy"
1
The house they stopped in front of was rather dingy and forbidding.
2
Image matters and what will a cramped, dingy space say about yours?
3
The second rescue was again of Kiribati fishermen, missing in a dingy.
4
Four or five dingy forms dart in and out among the tepees.
5
Rouletabille crossed the court and entered the dingy old room once more.
1
A necessary, but grubby compromise his party would soon put behind them.
2
I called you that for grabbing sleeves in grubby hands, of course.
3
Isaac stared out of the window into the grubby New Crobuzon night.
4
One feels slightly grubby even referring to this particular piece of near-sophistry.
5
And yes, Jacob Zuma does have his grubby fingerprints all over them.
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
It was a very dirty-looking shop, with begrimed bricks and blackened woodwork.
4
They were begrimed and charred, as if they had survived a fire.
5
His face was begrimed with dirt, his clothes were torn and untidy.
1
Candy said she had seen the show, and it was pretty raunchy.
2
But how do they manage with Eddie van Halen's raunchy guitar solos?
3
The dirt on him concerns raunchy e-mails he sent his girlfriend, Clementine.
4
Want it Ruff is a raunchy track produced by Ireland Records.
5
Your filmography of raunchy comedies doesn't exactly scream family friendly films.
1
The price for this pro-level way to make your photos all grungy?
2
In spite of Ryan's grungy appearance, he had seemed young and frightened.
3
The hyena took form with his leather vest and grungy long hair.
4
She felt about as grungy as she'd ever felt in her life.
5
Both astronaut and starship are distinctly grungy and the worse for wear.
Usage of grimy in English
1
I thought perhaps the effervescence would help break up the grimy grossness.
2
Having your genitalia winched off seems a particularly grimy way to go.
3
Lots of grimy water and smoke-smudged walls, but no visible fire damage.
4
The electric numerals of the carriage call soon brought the grimy-faced chauffeur.
5
All about him the houses and the street were grimy and depressing.
6
One little white hand swung limp; he seized it with grimy fingers.
7
The broad palm it lay on was still grimy from the workshop.
8
He wore spurred boots and a soft shirt; his nails were grimy.
9
As they crossed the hedge, he slipped his grimy hand in hers.
10
The grimy window-panes saddened all the light that poured through them faintly.
11
He therefore went carefully up the grimy stairway to the rooms above.
12
He leaned forward, pressing the camera even closer to the grimy window.
13
The tinker has set on his grimy glue-pot, and the glue simmers.
14
But human pain went deep into the strata of the grimy planet.
15
This place was grimy and low, the girls were careless and hardened.
16
When I awoke, it was past noon and I was feeling grimy.
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Grimy across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common