How To Use Grotty In A Sentence
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Inside those grotty beer-stained sweatpants is a smart, funny, well-dressed man waiting to emerge.
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Most recently these boots have been very grotty, having been present for the destruction and recreation of the living rooms and the continuing demolition of the garden.
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And this was a nice change from where we would normally be, in a grotty rehearsal room.
Times, Sunday Times
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Either that, or like amateur actors of no great talent taking part in some grotty costume play.
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People expect spittoons and grotty seating.
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It was a grubby, grotty, sleazy, cruisy dive, but it had atmosphere, and we all loved it despite ourselves.
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But the blue box was indeed moving, in short, speedy bursts, frequently changing direction as it glided back and forth across the grotty lino.
Boiling a Frog
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I am feeling pretty grotty about the whole thing at the moment.
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‘It has shown it has an ability to bounce back from the bad old days of high unemployment and poor education and a grotty town centre,’ he said.
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It is in a desolate location surrounded by grotty blocks of flats and graffiti.
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Prince is but a kid, him and friends Andre, Dez and Bobby Z pose in a grotty Minnesota bar, resplendent with flyaway proto-Princess Di hairdos, statement blusher, smudged guyliner, flasher macs and bare chests, in a mostly Caucasian town famous mainly for being bloody freezing.
Prince: A Purple Reign: Grace Dent's TV OD
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For our second year we left the grot-baggy house and took up a less grotty house with just two rooms and had our own private space.
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The damp cavernous interior of the house, with its grotty kitchen, filthy toilets and peeling wallpaper, adds to an overbearing sense of decay that pervades the film and its characters.
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I think that it came after Lord of Light (I can check later), but I have this grotty old paperback copy of a book called "Changeling".
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One poor lad was told "Open that window you grotty little man!" by a poshly spoken lady - little did she know the poor sod has 3 science 'A' levels and couldn't get a job anywhere else.
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Sometimes he would force you to clean his filthy floor with a grotty toothbrush and if you were really naughty he would lock you in the dirty, dusty dungeon.
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First of all, I'm off work with some sort of ‘flu bug, feeling extremely grotty.
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I can only watch so much Clark + May touring Britain and Nigella scurrying about Harvey Nicks before really missing the grotty parts of Sunset Blvd, In-N-Out Double Doubles, my Sunday cardio aka: Target, and the wide open car park also known as the 405.
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Pluto plays an ex-smuggler who buys a grotty bar in Little America, smartens it up and starts doing good business.
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There's damage here as far as the eye can see… holes in walls, fittings ripped off, filthy kitchens, grotty toilets, rubbish everywhere.
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What a contrast it was to get back to our grotty hotel after such a glitzy day.
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As many of you will know, composting is a kind of compulsion - once you've discovered the fascination of being able to turn grotty garden waste into rich, crumbly, dark brown compost, you never grow out of it.
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MPs attack £5bn government bill for 'grotty' new housing risks repeating the mistakes of the postwar boom by wasting hundreds of millions of pounds on Cape Town.
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We stayed here as it was cheap & the location is great - probably is good value for money but the rooms are grotty & depressing.
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It is made up of silly little stories, each grotty in its own individual way!
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Because her grotty Paddington flat is dimly lit, he thinks she is better looking than she really is.
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They laughed at him, they called him a loser, they sneered at his grotty little band of physical misfits, they ridiculed his manifestly hypocritical ideas, sought to diminish him publicly at every opportunity they could.
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Cheap and quick to build - and better than a grotty bedsit!
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And of course, a smeary, grotty sound that sounds like half of the dials are in the red with all the instruments merging at the edges has its own charms.
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I'm feeling pretty grotty today, still sick with a cold.
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Shadow Commons leader Alan Duncan and Sir Patrick Cormack urged the Government to ban the "grotty" and "squalid" row of tents from outside the Palace of Westminster.
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Neither moist towelettes nor lemon water accompanied the crab, so anyone who wanted the rest of their meal to be non-sticky had to venture inside in search of a rather grotty basin.
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Otherwise their five-star hotel will have to be built in a less prominent position with a view over our grotty row of cottages.
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The hotel was well out of the centre in a slightly grotty area, and so there wasn't much to see in the immediate vicinity, but in any case I wanted to work on the act for the night.
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Ever wondered how the NHS struggles by in the grotty, run-down and ultimately grim areas of this country?
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At first sight, the grotty cotton balls seem like an affront, but a funny one that quickly gives way to an appreciation of the literal saturation of color they accomplish, and the way they morph at a distance into flowers.
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What a contrast it was to get back to our grotty hotel after such a glitzy day.
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a grotty little play
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Given the title and director, I was expecting something grotty and disturbing, so I was pleasantly surprised when the film turned out to be a lighthearted kitschy romp.
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He catches the cramped, grotty frisson of the reporters' room, the professionalism instilled by hard-nosed old hands in the game, the lure of the bars in Vulcan Lane when the final edition had been put to bed.
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It's not Roy Thomson Hall," she said in Whistler on Wednesday, the day the festival announced plans that will see the tired, "grotty" 1980s theatre which is located inside the conference centre transformed into a state-of-the-art, 300-seat, digital theatre with new screen, projector, acoustics, lobby, exterior - and plush seats.
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Workers get a property, almost always a grotty flat.
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She had quickly registered the difference between Archie's grotty residence and the opulent garage, but said nothing.
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Cheap and quick to build - and better than a grotty bedsit!
The Sun
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But lest anyone though he had been rewarded too much, he's now stuck in a grotty bedsit facing years on the waiting list for a council home.
The Sun
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She just finds another grotty flat.
Times, Sunday Times
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And no wonder - his once notorious bachelor pad is now apparently rather grotty.
The Sun
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David Mitchell: 'I should probably be thinking seriously now about not living in a grotty flat on my own'
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MPs attack £5bn government bill for 'grotty' new housing
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But lest anyone though he had been rewarded too much, he's now stuck in a grotty bedsit facing years on the waiting list for a council home.
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It looked like it was going to be grotty, but as I was on the tube the clouds all seemed to disappear and by the time I came back above ground at Tottenham Court Road station the sky was a beautiful clear blue and the sun was shining brightly.
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The horror books certainly were gross and grotty.
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See, the upshot of getting there in the wee hours is that you can sift through them and find the really grotty dog-eared books with water damage and coffee stains that are a whole $4 cheaper than the other copies.
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You invented it, you grotty little man!
The Sun
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And no wonder - his once notorious bachelor pad is now apparently rather grotty.
The Sun
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Given the title and director, I was expecting something grotty and disturbing, so I was pleasantly surprised when the film turned out to be a lighthearted kitschy romp.
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I've also pulled away some loose woodchip, though most of it will be staying, as I'm certain the wall behind it is in a pretty grotty state.
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MPs attack £5bn government bill for 'grotty' new housing risks repeating the mistakes of the postwar boom by wasting hundreds of millions of pounds on funding "grotty" new homes, say MPs.
WN.com - Business News
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People expect spittoons and grotty seating.
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She spends all her time at their grotty flat.
The Sun
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I feel pretty grotty , ie unwell.
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Anyway, I reached for the bottle but I slipped on the chair, next thing the grotty bottle of metho goes flying in the air and I go flying and I end up with a mouthful of metho!
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And no wonder - his once notorious bachelor pad is now apparently rather grotty.
The Sun
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The hotel was well out of the centre in a slightly grotty area, and so there wasn't much to see in the immediate vicinity, but in any case I wanted to work on the act for the night.
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The way on from here was a slither down an inconspicuous and rather grotty looking muddy hole.
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And no wonder - his once notorious bachelor pad is now apparently rather grotty.
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