Sentence examples for to grubby from inspiring English sources
adjective
Dirty, unwashed, unclean.
- He's a grubby little boy, always playing around by the stream.
It was testament only to grubby journalism.
The Trumpian "so" also works similarly in the opposite direction: to intensify negatives without descending to grubby detail.
It has no one else to compete with Mr Vajpayee's national appeal, and will no doubt revert to grubby infighting in her absence.
She knows her demographic: women who don't necessarily want to go to grubby gigs, but like the look, especially when it's polished to high shine as by Versace.
Coetzee had kept his hands clean in a dirty situation, Gordimer had been prepared to grubby herself in the messy world of struggle politics.
In one sense it is a know-nothing cliche, passed from hand to grubby hand in the increasingly bold Islamophobic right.
So, during 2009 Art Fair week, I found myself tramping all the way out to the waterfront to a grubby barge to visit The Fountain Art Fair.
It feels strange discussing the split with Moore because I interviewed Gordon earlier this year, but it's fruitless, not to mention grubby, to take sides.
Where Walter White's story largely left home-economic concerns behind to grapple with more grandiose questions of human nature, the ballad of Jimmy McGill seems suited to grubbier matters.
And — it was nobody's fault — one reason Ernie wasn't as vivid a character as he needed to be was that it was Cary Grant trying to be grubby Ernie Mott.
"See them," pointing to the various movie stars around us, "they have to sign grubby scraps of papers from people who probably have tuberculosis".
