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grubby

adjective

grub·​by ˈgrə-bē How to pronounce grubby (audio)
grubbier; grubbiest
1
: infested with fly maggots
2
a
: dirty, grimy
grubby hands
3
: worthy of contempt : base
grubby political motives
grubbily adverb
grubbiness noun

Example Sentences

He lives in a grubby little apartment. clean off those grubby hands before you touch anything
Recent Examples on the Web Today, such a blunder would represent a refusal to survey the field; a refusal to recognize that American politics, like politics everywhere else in the world, is grubby and unkempt and ... Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 25 Aug. 2022 But the marble floors were grubby, and the installation of works that needed to be kept scrupulously dust-free had been held up by workmen, hammering and drilling. Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022 With 11 plaintiffs, the discovery process alone will be lengthy and revelatory, with unflattering details likely to emerge about both the Tour's secretive handling of discipline and LIV's grubby financials. Eamon Lynch, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2022 The Bear, the protagonist, Carmy, represents another version of the grubby archetype—a tattooed, greasily rakish kind of man who seems unstable yet wields a certain allure. Adrienne Matei, The Atlantic, 26 July 2022 This kind of thing will only grow as the sanity of the American body politic continues to erode, and as many on the right and the left abandon the grubby field of reality for a simplistic battle between good and evil. Matti Friedman, The Atlantic, 15 July 2022 Tracking how much the city changed from the end of the Gilded Age to the Roaring Twenties, Dos Passos reveals the grubby underside of industrialization. Alice Mcdermott, New York Times, 22 June 2022 Johnson is just the latest prime minister to fail spectacularly at the job, though in his case, in uniquely grubby circumstances. Tom Mctague, The Atlantic, 6 June 2022 Groups of friends were erecting tepees next to camper vans overflowing with grubby children. Kent Russell, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1725, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of grubby was in 1725

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