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[ UK /ɡɹˈʌbi/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɹəbi/ ]
NOUN
  1. small sculpin of the coast of New England
ADJECTIVE
  1. infested with grubs
  2. thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot
    dingy linen
    grubby little fingers
    a grungy kitchen
    a miner's begrimed face
    grimy hands

How To Use grubby In A Sentence

  • Use them to help scrub down grubby bathroom tiles and really get to the gritty bits. The Sun
  • Perhaps as a society we believe the grubby hands of business should be kept off our organs, especially in death.
  • Harriet slouched until she was almost hunchbacked, wearing boy's clothes, unironed and grubby.
  • He walked to the chair and looked through the grubby net curtain.
  • We left the meeting exhausted, exhilarated, and dreaming of when we'd get our grubby, grabby mitts on some final code.
  • The first is grubby old politics. Times, Sunday Times
  • Think what ranting about a grubby bathroom could get you. Times, Sunday Times
  • We transport them from their grubby little lives to Elysian fields. PAINT THE WIND
  • The phrase "British cinema documentary" came to mean a black and white collage of steam locomotives, slag heaps, women in grubby kitchens and men in flat caps, searchlights and bomb damage. A British fleet with no aircraft carrier. Unthinkable!
  • Once they get grubby or ratty on the bottom, turn the hem under and rehem. Berks county news
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