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- noun The condition of being
grungy
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Examples
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There's a whole world of Beyond Thunderdome postapocalyptica in the grunginess of it, but the color scheme is different, resulting in brown leather and brass fittings instead of black leather and tattered chainmail.
with one fist raised in anger. with one foot in the fire. truepenny 2009
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The Seattle bandmates haven't unleashed their grunginess since '97, and Soundgarden's Matt Cameron had joined fellow grunge alums Pearl Jam as their full-time drummer.
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The movie has an organic sense of grunginess about it that I like.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Movie Analysis: Lars and the Real Girl 2008
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The Seattle bandmates haven\'t unleashed their grunginess since \'97, and Soundgarden\'s Matt Cameron had joined fellow grunge alums Pearl Jam as their full-time drummer.
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Even as gentrification has marched across Manhattan, the Bowery, which runs from Chatham Square, at the southern edge of Chinatown, up to Cooper Square, in the East Village, has retained its air of grunginess.
Boho Renaissance Goldberger, Paul 2007
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On those returns I sometimes saw my father stand in the adolescent grunginess of my bedroom my mother had mostly relinquished title to my room, watching me.
The Beautiful Miscellaneous Dominic Smith 2007
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On those returns I sometimes saw my father stand in the adolescent grunginess of my bedroom my mother had mostly relinquished title to my room, watching me.
The Beautiful Miscellaneous Dominic Smith 2007
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Even as gentrification has marched across Manhattan, the Bowery, which runs from Chatham Square, at the southern edge of Chinatown, up to Cooper Square, in the East Village, has retained its air of grunginess.
Boho Renaissance Goldberger, Paul 2007
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Slightly voyeuristic I suppose, but I am in the grunginess of my heart.
Musing on the Muse 2002
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I was twenty when the grunginess of Nirvana exploded, and—looking back—it was a pretty amazing period to be a rock fan in a collegiate setting.
Fargo Rock City Chuck Klosterman 2003
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