grimy
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Grimy barracks and muggy Florida weather were replaced by clear skies and new facilities.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2024
One of his recurring characters was an undertaker named Grimy James, whose frock coat came in handy when the station bought a collection of 52 old horror films from Universal.
From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2016
Tom Cipullo marshals the four singers for a blunt comic piece about the depredations of one route in “G Is for Grimy: An Ode to the G Train.”
From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2012
Grimy and tired the 30 travelers arrived in St. Louis just in time to get into their evening clothes, enter the National Intercollegiate Glee Club finals.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Everyone! Especially folksingers and third-grade teachers. Grimy undergraduates and grammar school children are always chanting it like sorcerers.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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