Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Dirty; grimy: grubby old work clothes.
- adj. Infested with grubs.
- adj. Contemptible; despicable: has a grubby way of treating others.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Dirty; unclean, as if from grubbing.
- Stunted; poor; peevish.
- Infected with grubs.
- n. The common sculpin, a cottoid fish, Acanthocottus æneus, of New England.
Wiktionary
- adj. Dirty, unwashed, unclean.
- adj. Having grubs in it.
- n. US, dialect Any species of Cottus; a sculpin.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. colloq. Dirty; unclean.
- n. (Zoöl.), Local, U. S. Any species of Cottus; a sculpin.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot
- adj. infested with grubs
- n. small sculpin of the coast of New England
Examples
“The phrase "British cinema documentary" came to mean a black and white collage of steam locomotives, slag heaps, women in grubby kitchens and men in flat caps, searchlights and bomb damage.”
The Guardian: A British fleet with no aircraft carrier. Unthinkable!
“Are they scriveners churning out what the novelist Richard Yates himself a sometimes adman called "grubby little jobs for hire," or are they skilled poets performing on a commercial canvas?”
“Thereupon he engages in what can only be described as a grubby piece of attempted blackmail of his party leader which was rightly rebuffed.”
“From being so much with the judges, I grew quite learned in French legal terms, talked of the parquet (which means the Bar), and invariably termed the grubby little Nyons law-court the Palais.”
“In the book she recalls him noticing they were "grubby" after a journey from Vienna, and showing them to the bathroom, where he had brushes inscribed "AH".”
“I plan to double what I regularly give to the Obama campaign as an affirmative protest against this kind of grubby low-level attack.”
Citizens United to Release Anti-Obama Documentary - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
“The group had been told to dress "grubby," bring tools, and, now, to "buddy up.”
“March 26th, 2009 2: 21pm stanley Jerusalem - the sheriff is becoming more and bitter. note his words now descending to "grubby" it could be the arrow festering in the toches or tasting the bitter herbs ahead of pesach - he digs bigger holes for himself with every essay he sends, and for what purpose except possibly to amuse - offen yam you know the beginning alanadale”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
“AM says she was left feeling 'grubby' after transport staff failed to show sufficient deference.”
“It was precisely the kind of grubby horsetrading which it is hard to imagine the single-minded Brown engaging in.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘grubby’.
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Beautiful and Ugly
Beautiful, attractive, well-formed
Ugly, unattractive, malformedadorable, alluring, angelic, appealing, appetizing, attractive, beaming, beauteous, beautiful, becoming, beguiling, bewitching and 180 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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I am : dirty
dirty, stained, grubby, tainted, speckled, tarnished, smeared, filthy, muddy, smudged, grimy, foul and 3 more...
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Words of Wear
Words describing worn out objects
worn, tattered, threads, ratty, dirty, old, smudgy, hand me down, stained, threadbare, decrepit, shoddy and 21 more...
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Words To Use In Creative Writing
hag-ridden, light-heeled, wendigo, longshanks, fatuous, insipid, sodden, bulging, sycophantic, uncourtly, gauche, assuasive and 102 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, G
grocer, gabanergic, gabardine, gabbro, gaffe, gneiss, grapple, grosgrain, grommet, gratify, gossamer, goofy and 194 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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Delicious Words
The stuff that fit its descript. so well you can almost taste it on your tongue or feel the sting against your skin.
gurgle, grubby, tangy, bolt, spring, skid, shudder, thud, thump, spit, lush, pop and 91 more...
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MsHalston's Words
theoretically, insufferable, apolitico, milquetoast, egregious, aplomb, elan, fraught, flummox, befrocked, moll, molten and 605 more...
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unpack your adjectives
and adverbs
walrusine, slipshod, bemused, inscrutable, bombastic, cattywampus, copacetic, famished, crackpot, flailsome, lugubrious, scalesome and 102 more...
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The Kindling
SAS Gr. 7 EAL Book Read
kindling, plague, vague, staccato, digress, barren, soothe, ten commandments, undulated, rant, whimper, callous and 18 more...
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missanja's list
Clothes
baggy jumper, creased jacket, crumpled shirt, faded sweatshirt, fancy dress, fetching dress, flared trousers, flat shoes, garish, grubby, moth-eaten, patched trousers and 6 more...
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The Kindling
plague, perish, mildew, vague, tick, staccato, digress, barren, soothe, kindling, stray, undulate and 20 more...
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