The word 'grungy' is considered a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an adjective that describes something as dirty, unkempt, or shabby in a fashionable or stylish way. Example: The young artist loved the grungy vibe of the abandoned warehouse and used it as inspiration for their latest collection.
The Bike Stop has the grungy decor you would expect, and serves cheap beer in big mugs to leather-clad gentlemen.
For the fattest real burrito, El Farolito a few doors down does one the size of a bolster (and we didn't even supersize it), humming with vibrant flavours, in a sticky oilclothed atmosphere that defines grungy.
Grungy little Serpentine gets points for its ramshackle charm and house-cured salmon Benedict.
Mainly because the railway station (at the time) was slightly grungy and if somebody suggested meeting there you'd say: "You what?
On a pavement in Stokes Croft, a grungy area of Bristol thick with students, the former Royal Air Force engineer stands shivering on a wintry evening, hugging copies of "Bristol Green News".
IF MICHAEL MOORE bumped into an average German on the street, the encounter might be rather strained: the film-maker's grungy appearance could well be taken as one more piece of evidence of America's incorrigible ugliness.But looks aren't everything: like most Europeans, the Germans love the way Mr Moore is exposing the defects, real and imagined, of his own country.
A convinced social democrat, she shocked friends by inviting Chancellor Helmut Kohl to her home in Berlin's grungy Prenzlauer Berg.
Though some of the Thucydides-loving demonstrators were from elite private schools, others were from grungy further-education colleges.As they waited for Boris Johnson, the Tory education spokesman, to address them (in Latin), the pupil-protesters chanted "Long live Athens!
Yet little of the love and attention lavished on Oxford trickles down the Cowley Road, which starts on the wrong side of the Cherwell river, and winds up in the grungy industrial district that for decades epitomised Britain's inefficient and stroppy motor industry.Indeed, the Cowley Road seems at first sight not just unloved, but outright unlovable.
PICTURE yourself as a big shot from an unpopular country—leader of an oil-rich bit of the Middle East, say, or a tycoon from a grungy bit of the former Communist world.
North Adams, very recently plain-old grungy, is now successfully grungy-cool.
