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Meanings of grungy 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
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.
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.
Usage of grungy in English
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.
6
Plaid pleated skirt, crisp white blouse, grungy sweat socks and beatup Reeboks.
7
I could change out of my grungy clothes, but don't bother.
8
The solars gleamed, providing enough light to navigate the grungy passage.
9
Whereas a pot smoker is very much a college kid, maybe grungy, hippy-looking.
10
Perth band Pond play scuzzy 70s rock and blues-funk with a grungy-punky singer.
11
Or, if it gets super grungy, I can throw it in the laundry.
12
Those grungy, credit card-financed, 16mm films from the festival's early days are long gone.
13
Inside young men in grungy clothes headbang to hard rock.
14
It's Sunday night in Wimbledon and a grungy, nondescript bloke drifts past the window.
15
In the grungy waiting room, they sat side by side.
16
One person suggested the new floor would be slipperier than the grungy old floor.
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