grimy

• I have been noticing that her parting is very grimy, and that her white hair is so tinged with dirt as to be rather shocking. —  When Last I Died - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 13: 1941
• The iron bedsteads were black and grimy, the blankets of an ugly barracks-room gray. —  Maigret’s Dead Man - Georges Simenon - 56: 1948
• It was a gray thing, as gray as the grimy-looking coral stone underfoot. —  108 - Men of Fear
• His cheeks and forehead were grimy, his eyes red, his clothes soaked with sweat. —  AHMM, April 2002
• No boat could have taken them away in the fog so silently that he could not have heard Their departure The silver men had vanished in a fashion as strange as their costumes THERE was a crowd of police about the ramshackle, grimy--and now half destroyed--building where the trap had been set for Doc. —  020 - Death In Silver

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