grubby

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I feel more than a little grubby, and we can have our breakfast in the cooling gallery.

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  1. adjective Dirty; grimy: grubby old work clothes.
  2. adjective Infested with grubs.
  3. adjective Contemptible; despicable: has a grubby way of treating others.

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  • It was brown and grubby, and still rather plump, for Keith was only eleven. —  The Rising of the Moon - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 18: 1945
  • Once soldiers round them up and quarantine them in a grubby, abandoned mental asylum, their worst primal instincts emerge: urination and defecation in the hallways, theft, assaults and, ultimately, rape. —  Tahoe Daily Tribune - Top Stories
  • Once they're rounded up by soldiers and quarantined in a grubby, abandoned mental asylum (because apparently The Ritz-Carlton wasn't available), their worst primal instincts emerge: urination and defecation in the hallways, theft, assaults and, ultimately, rape. —  Berks county news
  • Its main innovation was that it dispensed with the conventional wisdom that touch meant a stylus and allowed the use of a grubby, greasy, uneducated finger instead as its main driving force. —  All About Symbian - News
  • A small, grubby, windowless room up a flight of stairs in central Shanghai demonstrated the reach and limits of financial globalisation. —  BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
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grimy ·  rumple ·  knee-length ·  tattered ·  bloodstained ·  sweaty ·  khaki ·  threadbare ·  rolled-up ·  woolen ·  filthy ·  bedraggled
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