Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Covered or smudged with grime. synonym: dirty.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Full of grime; foul; dirty.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Full of grime; begrimed; dirty; foul.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective stained, or covered with grime

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot

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Examples

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

    Gopnik's Daily Pic: Monticelli, van Gogh's godfather Blake Gopnik 2010

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

    Sold to the basest emotions Anjali 2009

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

    Archive 2009-02-01 Anjali 2009

  • 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) 2001

  • 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) 2001

  • 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) 2001

  • 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 1949

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

    Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949

  • 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 1937

  • 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 George A. Birmingham 1907

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