How To Use Grubbiness In A Sentence

Beneath a surface grubbiness inside, the seats, carpets and trim were in excellent condition.
This seems tailor-made to whip up the very grade grubbiness Abeles condemns. Linda Flanagan: Race to Nowhere?
When, for instance, people protested against the rudeness, grubbiness and incompetence of train and bus conductors (a popular subject), the route, the date and time, and details of offensive behaviour were always given.
He is at odds with the grubbiness of what he does to the point of getting obsessed with the cleanness of his immediate surroundings: when his medication accidentally disappears down a drain, he cleans his apartment with a toothbrush.
Mr. Vann's feat is to make all this grubbiness feed Irene's claustrophobia until it explodes in a tremendously disturbing conclusion. Icy State Of Affairs

But at times it is the moments of personal grubbiness that stand out.
There is, for some reason, something especially grim about pubs near stations, a very particular kind of grubbiness, a special kind of pallor to the pork pies. So long, and thanks for all the fish
Grandma's elephantine ankles, mother's hypochondria, Grandpa's grubbiness, are all experienced as her own.
The splendour and the sordor is side by side, the audacity and the grubbiness, the pathos and bathos.
The locations in England and Jordan are garbage-strewn, skuzzy and glamourless, a comment on the grubbiness of private-contractor mercenary work and the shadowy corporate/government power systems that employ it. StarTribune.com rss feed
In the way the French can and Hollywood doesn't, this young woman was portrayed in all her sordid rags and grubbiness, yet somehow without quite obscuring the enchanting creature of stunning sexuality beneath.
He, on the other hand, seems to believe that a certain amount of grubbiness in politics is only to be expected and tolerated.
There were some nice apartments too, hidden inside the grubbiness of the uniform tower blocks and made comfortable with Western electronics and full bookshelves. Alastair Humphreys: For Russia With a Smile
It's kind of Stand By Me with a zombie and a big helping of grubbiness. Filmstalker: Stalker's Top Ten 2009: Daniel Woolstencroft: Horror