grimy

• “He stayed based in grimy Marseilles, instead of resettling in Paris and becoming part of its scene and myth.”

  The Washington Post: Gopnik's Daily Pic: Monticelli, van Gogh's godfather

• “The story of victory of Jamal in grimy settings touches the basest emotions in man.”

  Sold to the basest emotions

• “When we got to the Reyes compound in Tlachichuca, it was almost 9 pm and we were grimy from a day spent wading through Mexico's rural bus system.”

  Mexico mountaineering expedition on Pico de Orizaba (Citlaltepetl)

• “Winston could not remember ever to have seen a passageway whose walls were not grimy from the contact of human bodies.”

  Nineteen Eighty-Four

• “A low-ceilinged, crowded room, its walls grimy from the contact of innumerable bodies; battered metal tables and chairs, placed so close together that you sat with elbows touching; bent spoons, dented trays, coarse white mugs; all surfaces greasy, grime in every crack; and a sourish, composite smell of bad gin and bad coffee and metallic stew and dirty clothes.”

  Nineteen Eighty-Four

• “Partly blocking the door of the larder there was a shapeless sofa upon which Mrs. Brooker, our landlady, lay permanently ill, festooned in grimy blankets.”

  The Road to Wigan Pier

• “He entered a large office, very grimy, which is the proper condition of a place where documents concerning coal are dealt with.”

  Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918

• “That's not true in other cities, where the supporting cast of tunnels and catwalks enjoys its own kind of grimy renown, a celebration of massive scale and urban prowess.”

  The Washington Post: Unseen Washington: Photographer David Deal sees the city's hidden side

• “Here's a good example, actually, of this kind of grimy, smudgy industrial landscape with some forlorn strings painted on the top of it.”

  NPR: Bach, Ballet And 1-Bit Symphonies: New Classical CDs

• “I'm talking about the kind of grimy, bare-knuckles municipal greed that Warner Brothers used to make movies about in thirties.”

  Forbes: Back Home In Delhi

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