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How to pronounce grubby in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms myxocephalus aenaeus
Type of sculpin
Type Words
Synonyms begrimed, dingy, grimy, grungy, raunchy
Derivation grubbiness


grubby little fingers.
Type Words
Derivation grub

Examples of grubby

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The entryway is a grubby arcade packed with greasy cafes and takeout food shops.
From the latimes.com
I'm particularly taken with the idea of The Cameroon having grubby fingerprints.
From the guardian.co.uk
I've been on the road 16 hours and am tired and grubby, but who am I to refuse?
From the nzherald.co.nz
The way Stern lights this film, the Detroit skies are grubby, tinged with sorrow.
From the al.com
This is partly a grubby power struggle, but it is also a fight about principle.
From the economist.com
Why does the Guardian continue to promote this grubby and ineffective government?
From the guardian.co.uk
Cricket continues to exhibit symptoms of something distinctly grubby at its core.
From the guardian.co.uk
Everyone wants to get their grubby little hands all over it, that's what happens.
From the hecklerspray.com
To suggest otherwise is to turn a shining martyr into a grubby comparison shopper.
From the techcrunch.com
More examples
  • Infested with grubs
  • Small sculpin of the coast of New England
  • Begrimed: thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen"
  • (grubbily) dingily: in a dingy manner
  • Manuel "Grubby" Schenkhuizen (born May 11, 1986, Nieuwegein), is a Dutch professional PC games player. He has been competing in eSports in the real-time strategy game Warcraft III (WC3) and ''. ...
  • Dirty, unwashed, unclean; Having grubs in it
  • Flavor imparted to oil by olive fly damage to olives