Meanings of grubby face in English

Then he lifted a rather white, very grubby face to Helen's.

The farmer laughed evilly, teeth showing white in his grubby face.

A gust of April wind wagged them comically, and made mock of the sorrowful, grubby face underneath.

Clear suspicion lined his grubby face.

She cried now and then as she plodded on, her tears painting white streaks down her grubby face.

Her grubby face was infantile, with the suggestion of an overbite, but all was dominated by the purple and gray bruising.

The floor is covered with plywood, and standing in front of me is a small, thin woman with a grubby face.

The kid was about Ashley's age, with a grubby face and a smile that told the world he was happy for no particular reason.

She was limping badly, her fine clothes streaked with dirt, and across her grubby face were the pale tracks left by copious quantities of tears.

Some of them wanted to rub their grubby faces against my hands.