gritty

• While Cleveland has long been known as a gritty city with its share of troubles, in recent years, its problems have multiplied. —  Newsvine - Get Smarter Here
• And for the nitty-gritty, as in voting records and bios,
• But whatever the details of the financial nitty-gritty, the Times is sailing in choppy seas and is starting to ship water. —  Technology news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
• And somebody who had done something very nitty-gritty, and yet was artistic, in the best sense of the word. —  Moviehole
• Lehman was known as a gritty overachiever, which it displayed when its headquarters across the street from the World Trade Center was badly damaged in the September 2001 terrorist attacks. —  The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Frontpage

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