Sentence examples for grubby game from inspiring English sources

Hammond is playing a grubby game.

Broader cricket, a more inclusive cricket, a more approachable, less greedy, less grabby, less grubby game is in everybody's interest – administrator and fan.

He said excessive news media coverage of campaign money "reinforces the stereotypes that a lot of people have, that this is all a grubby game, people are on the take, and if you have a lot of money you can buy access".

A grubby game.

While this grubby power game continues, the Sahrawis who fled to Algeria in the 1970s have no prospect of returning home.

Some politicians – for instance, Clive Soley, once chair of the parliamentary Labour party – wonder openly whether the stings aren't part of some grubby, subterranean game of intimidation: an obvious thought while sniping at poor Carine Patry Hoskins continues.

It died with its eponymous hero, and so did much of the grubby glamour of the fight game.

Grubby nationalists looked up from their game of basketball to see the growing line at a nearby ice cream stand.

In 2003 Britons were told that the games would cost about £3 billion ($4.9 billion), plus £1 billion to spruce up the grubby corner of their capital where the games would be staged.

The Yankees bugged out in Cleveland, were eliminated at home and upstaged the rest of the postseason with the tacky Joe Torre saga and the grubby Alex Rodriguez contract intrusion during the Red Sox Series-clinchinggameme in Denver.

This was supposed to be the game of small-time crooks and grubby apartments.