grime

No one seems to mind the industrial grime.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

Signs of poor cleaning include strong urine odors, dirty floors, and visible grime.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 13, 2026

Nearby, a municipal flagpole is rusted, palm trees are dead, handrails are covered with stickers and a sign establishing a “Special Enforcement and Cleaning Zone” is covered with grime and graffiti.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2026

Richardson described it as "quite a common thing", for people to "make your money in the smoke and grime of Liverpool but you don't want to live there, and instead move out into the country".

From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2026

A smear of grime streaks over her nose.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

The different greases and grimes each part creates.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2022

Sabela grimes for their performances in “The Motherboard Suite”; and Annique Roberts, for her work with the dance company Ronald K. Brown/Evidence.

From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2021

Sabela grimes, is a bit of a departure in that it's more heavily Afro-Cuban than salsa-influenced.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2016

Boucher has written, on Tumblr, that “claire and grimes are completely different ppl at this point,” and has said, of a disappointing performance, “It wasn’t a Grimes show…. It was Claire pretending to be Grimes.”

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2015

This conception of a poet is high and worthy; nothing gross grimes it with common dust.

From A Hero and Some Other Folks by William A. (William Alfred) Quayle

Peter's troubles and the damage he causes are terrible in close-up, but seen through a broader lens grimed up by reality, they're almost tolerable.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2020

Wong’s works are as outré as Tseng’s are hermetic, landscapes that obscure the painter and take in the men — usually men, mostly Latino — behind the grimed facades of Manhattan’s then-frayed edges.

From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2018

Scrap that off-brand toaster oven they’ve grimed up beyond recognition and buy them Cuisinart’s CSO-300 Steam Oven, capable of cutting cooking times by 40 percent.

From Newsweek

Dirt grimed the windows that he would not wash, settled thickly on the unswept floor.

From Time Magazine Archive

Under the lifting skirts of the dreary canopy dim light leaked into Mordor like pale morning through the grimed window of a prison.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

There was no gilding the lily, or rather the opposite: no griming the garbage can.

From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2016

The confused indigene, driven by admonition and shame put on the hot and griming stuffs, and finally, had them kept on him by statute.

From Nonsenseorship by G. G. Putnam

He picked up the book, griming the dainty pages as he turned them with his rough fingers, glancing at the headings.

From Hidden Water by Maynard Dixon

Tears gleamed on the stern fighter's cheeks, there in the ghostly blue firelight—tears that washed little courses through the dust and sand now griming his face.

From The Flying Legion by George Allan England

Just as the cakes became heavier, tougher, more ordinary, as the months passed, so the whole enterprise suffered gradually from that coarsening and griming which seems an inevitable result of Chicago use.

From One Woman's Life by Robert Herrick