Sentence examples for too grubby from inspiring English sources
"Developers always felt it was too grubby around here.
"When they get too grubby we'll make pillows out of them," Jessica said.
Among the gentleman scholars, working for pay "was far too grubby a notion".
Would my potential boss notice and think me too grubby for the position?
Is he saying that Vegas is a little too grubby, a little too working-class for him, or what?
As a perfect blend of the utterly unexceptionable (not too experimental, not too elitist, not too grubby, not too posh), his choice of events may be commended.
They would serve a single 15-year term, with the aim of removing them from too much grubby electioneering.
One is cultural: the reluctance of City investors to take on the banks because it looks too adversarial and "grubby".
The private construction of a whole new city, Lavasa, has been halted over the brazen flouting of planning rules, presumably with the connivance of politicians.National politics looks grubby too.
Fortunately, since there is a political consensus around the peace drive, it is likely to continue under the new administration.Drawn and quarteredCongress, for its part, traditionally too proud for grubby coalition politics, had this time assembled an impressive haul of allies.
Another disaster hit the NDA in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, where its former member, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), routed the BJP's coalition partner.Drawn and quarteredCongress, for its part, traditionally too proud for grubby coalition politics, had this time assembled an impressive haul of allies.
