gritty
Example Sentences
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Itauma initially "wanted to be world champion by 20", but these gritty encounters tempered that ambition.
From BBC
In the early ’90s, a distinct penchant for mischief and a grittily glamorous New York edge quickly earned Jacobs the moniker of fashion’s bad boy.
From Salon
Appropriate to a character who lives for being onscreen, “Bait” plays with the language of film — gritty procedural, a burst of Bollywood, romantic comedy — though not necessarily to the usual ends.
From Los Angeles Times
And the cartoonish portrayal of combat using childlike blocky figures helps to sanitize gritty images of war, helping it to get past social media filters—and pushing it far beyond Iran’s borders.
He took some dried willow bark from his medicine pouch and chewed it, gagging on its gritty bitterness.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
