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Meanings of gritty in English
Composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency.
Synonyms
Examples for "grainy"
Examples for "grainy"
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This week brought yet another documentary with near wall-to-wall grainy old footage.
2
A grainy, gray picture of a dismal room appears on the screen.
3
It tasted slightly grainy, imbued with the sunlight of a summer morning.
4
There's even a windshield cam to record grainy images during the descent.
5
One screen, larger than the rest, showed a moving grainy gray image.
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The data needs to be sufficiently granular so as to be useful.
2
Similar to Cheddar, but more granular, softer in texture and marketed younger.
3
Recurrent granular deposits developed in the corneal graft 14 months after surgery.
4
Involucrin was used as a differentiation marker for spinous and granular cells.
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The formation of the granular sphere was hastened by any accidental injury.
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Hajj is not a mealy-mouthed liberal suck-up to Islamic countries or institutions.
2
Nearly everyone involved in the shenaniagns had some mealy-mouthed excuses to offer.
3
When we need protest and backbone, we get mealy-mouthed responses and jellyfish.
4
It is dry and mealy, of the taste of chestnuts and cheese.
5
On boiling the fruit it became nearly as mealy as a potato.
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It contained partly-digested food, apparently consisting of cheese, potatoes and farinaceous powder.
2
The farinaceous matter afforded by each plant is very considerable, 500 lbs.
3
The lungs are satisfied with a provision of vegetable and farinaceous food.
4
The result is, they know but little of farinaceous or vegetable food.
5
Fresh mutton or beef, a variety of vegetables, and a farinaceous pudding.
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Large crystals and a subsequent demand for tape characterize the coarse-grained granite.
2
A microgel particle consists of coarse-grained linear polymers, which are tetra-functionally crosslinked.
3
These particles are an ideal test system for the extension of coarse-grained models.
4
His holo, rather, a genial if somewhat coarse-grained ghost afloat in golden light.
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A coarse-grained model for molecular dynamics simulations is extended from lipids to proteins.
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The soluble filtrate from starch paste also contains a substance identical with granulose.
Usage of gritty in English
1
The above kinds enjoy a gritty vegetable soil; perfect drainage is indispensable.
2
Root was far from his best but gutsed out a gritty innings.
3
The nitty-gritty of the American dream doesn't come much grittier than this.
4
This was exactly the kind of gritty response he had hoped for.
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The historically accurate film Dunkirk is being praised for its gritty reality.
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The running, the growing heat, had left him feeling oily and gritty.
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It was subversive and gritty, a poetry-kaleidoscope trip into the for-profit future.
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They felt the tops of their caps-theyand the deck were gritty.
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He spilled out of gritty industry into a world of street-level commerce.
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Rinse the squid heads under cold water to remove any gritty material.
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It must've been gritty when he took it home and ate it.
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The dialogue is mainly in a gritty urban Arabic, peppered with Hebrew.
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It's a sexy gritty song that reps NYC and '90s hip-hop well.
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But two buildings distinguish this otherwise typically gritty district of eastern Ukraine.
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He prefers to traffic in lofty philosophical ideas, not nitty-gritty policy stances.
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Both felt that the pleasantry had a somewhat gritty flavor just now.
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Gritty through the time
Gritty across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common