ADJECTIVE
  1. thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot
    dingy linen
    grubby little fingers
    a grungy kitchen
    a miner's begrimed face
    grimy hands
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How To Use begrimed In A Sentence

  • He scrubbed the begrimed garments as best he could until they were as white and as lavish as usual.
  • Some carefully juxtaposed moments: elderly fiddlers playing for money in front of pricey boutiques; begrimed miners gouging for silver ore as tonily garbed skiers schuss the pristine slopes. Rocky Mountain High Life
  • Who could tell under all the layers of soil, dust, toxins, and smog that begrimed both their flesh and the sewage they wore? Godot Finally Shows!
  • He wore the same blackened shirt and dark clothing as when he had left, but now they and he were begrimed and streaked with dirt.
  • Striding beside him, his loyal and rugged men - Red, Zee, and Lake among them - look equally square-jawed, primed and begrimed from their time in the field.
  • Many of these persons, notwithstanding the worship paid to the great god Mammon, and the glory reflected upon all those who seem to be his favorite, have yet so begrimed themselves in their struggle after wealth, and are naturally so unamiable, and their manners so gross, that though each one has his circle, larger or smaller, of dependants and ‘toadies,’ they find no admission for themselves into the two-year-old circle above alluded to. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Googalicious
  • Many of these persons, notwithstanding the worship paid to the great god Mammon, and the glory reflected upon all those who seem to be his favorite, have yet so begrimed themselves in their struggle after wealth, and are naturally so unamiable, and their manners so gross, that though each one has his circle, larger or smaller, of dependants and ‘toadies,’ they find no admission for themselves into the two-year-old circle above alluded to. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Googalicious
  • The sight of his clothes was unsettling enough: the coat was torn and filthy, and his dark fedora begrimed with pale dust. NIGHT SISTERS
  • Pausing before some work of Teniers, he took for his own the helmet of the soldier or the poverty of the artisan; he wished to wear a smoke-begrimed cap with these The Magic Skin
  • The one antiquated, rude, corroded, and begrimed in its long conflict with time, and the other bright and vivid, its field and exergue unmarred, its emblems and legends clear and sharp. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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