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grimy

adjective as in dirty

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As long as we determine each country’s climate responsibility based on their production emissions, it’s easy for wealthy nations that have shipped polluting industries overseas to pretend they’re cleaner than the grimy “Global South.”

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Some cases have built-in screen protection, which can be handy and easy to install, but you’ll have to switch out the whole case once the screen protector starts to get beat up and grimy.

The thing about backpacking and camping is that your skin and hair are exposed to multiple coats of grimy, smelly substances, and they all meld together into a malodorous layer of sweat, bug spray, dirt, and campfire smoke.

When the experts re-created her weary face, they gave her a headscarf, something she might have worn in the grimy Maryland industrial settlement where she lived.

The Isles are just so grimy, I forget that they’re also good!

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Half a dozen men sit on the floor in a grimy rented storefront in the crowded Khyber Bazaar.

He was the proprietor of a grimy chicken joint in Rochester, New York.

At the end of the opening heist, I could practically feel my feet sinking into the grimy sand of Revere Beach.

When they returned, many came to this small building with arched windows only a few blocks from the grimy Caspian beach.

The closest agents get to that in, say, cold and grimy New York is eating in their cars.

Some shelves had been put up along one side of the stall, and they were piled with a lot of grimy-looking books.

He took the hand she held out to him, and looked down at her out of his grimy, disfigured face, an odd tenderness stirring him.

Men carrying Winchesters are hurrying by, their faces grimy, eyes bold yet anxious.

He had removed his tin cup and was engaged in stirring its grimy contents with a small stick.

Those chats with the doctor in that grimy little consulting-room in Pimlico remained ever in his memory.

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On this page you'll find 43 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to grimy, such as: dingy, filthy, grubby, grungy, messy, and soiled.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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