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  • adjective superlative form of grubby: most grubby.

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Examples

  • But I always feel underdressed and vaguely unhappy when I wear my grubbiest clothes.

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch » 2009 » May 2009

  • But I always feel underdressed and vaguely unhappy when I wear my grubbiest clothes.

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch » The Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Staying Positive 2009

  • But I always feel underdressed and vaguely unhappy when I wear my grubbiest clothes.

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch » 2009 » May » 21 2009

  • Once the auditor had departed, Scott donned his grubbiest clothes and a pair of thick work gloves and set about removing the corpse.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Calamity Jen 2009

  • Once the auditor had departed, Scott donned his grubbiest clothes and a pair of thick work gloves and set about removing the corpse.

    Down and dirty Calamity Jen 2009

  • But I always feel underdressed and vaguely unhappy when I wear my grubbiest clothes.

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch » 2009 » May 2009

  • I spend two freakin 'weeks in a developing, central American country, drinking the water and eating food from the grubbiest of tiny little roadside rice and bean huts in the middle of nowhere with no ill effect, but I'm back in my own country for less than 24 hours, and I manage to get food poisoning from something I prepared myself in my own goddamn house.

    idiot-milk Diary Entry idiot-milk 2007

  • The conservative-cum-republican ideology seems focused on the grubbiest chasing of personal wealth.

    Firedoglake » Beggars and Thieves 2006

  • Aside from the impossibility of making even the grubbiest living writing such stuff even at warp speed, it means that even the most dedicated literary artist possessed of a vast personal fortune is going to be driven elsewhere for lack of a creatively and emotionally sustaining readership.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

  • The ones who lurked there were the slyest and grubbiest.

    Two For The Lions Davis, Lindsey 1998

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