Composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency.
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Examples for "gritty"
Examples for "gritty"
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The above kinds enjoy a gritty vegetable soil; perfect drainage is indispensable.
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Root was far from his best but gutsed out a gritty innings.
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The nitty-gritty of the American dream doesn't come much grittier than this.
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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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This week brought yet another documentary with near wall-to-wall grainy old footage.
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A grainy, gray picture of a dismal room appears on the screen.
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It tasted slightly grainy, imbued with the sunlight of a summer morning.
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There's even a windshield cam to record grainy images during the descent.
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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.
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Similar to Cheddar, but more granular, softer in texture and marketed younger.
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Recurrent granular deposits developed in the corneal graft 14 months after surgery.
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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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It contained partly-digested food, apparently consisting of cheese, potatoes and farinaceous powder.
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The farinaceous matter afforded by each plant is very considerable, 500 lbs.
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The lungs are satisfied with a provision of vegetable and farinaceous food.
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The result is, they know but little of farinaceous or vegetable food.
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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.
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A microgel particle consists of coarse-grained linear polymers, which are tetra-functionally crosslinked.
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These particles are an ideal test system for the extension of coarse-grained models.
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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.
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Hajj is not a mealy-mouthed liberal suck-up to Islamic countries or institutions.
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Nearly everyone involved in the shenaniagns had some mealy-mouthed excuses to offer.
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When we need protest and backbone, we get mealy-mouthed responses and jellyfish.
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It is dry and mealy, of the taste of chestnuts and cheese.
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On boiling the fruit it became nearly as mealy as a potato.
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Madam, - Your Editorial on Charlie McCreevy was mealy mouthed and small-minded.
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The flowers are borne on stems which are very mealy, and 6in.
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Prepare a certain quantity of boiled potatoes, the mealy kind being preferred.
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And I learned then that mealy noses are by no means rare.
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It is a mealy, porous, warm sand, well drained and easily cultivated.
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For this purpose use potatoes that are very white, mealy, and smooth.
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The bills are crisp and mealy, like they're fresh from an ATM.
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So he will come down at last in his old-fashioned, mealy coat.
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He had black hair, olive skin, sharp features, and a mealy mouth.
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No more mealy-mouthed acceptance of the convoluted, archaic and unnecessarily one-sided funding situation.
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But the visual image in the masterly original Greek is not so mealy-mouthed.
