grubby
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“It’s not even a business for me,” Ivanka claimed on that podcast about her island project—but it certainly will be for some, and likely a grubby one.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Alice Lockey is lady’s maid to the earl’s daughter, the spoiled, indolent and surprisingly grubby Lady Jemima Alderwick.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Print and cinema’s strings are being pulled by the grubby, greedy hands of executives who care far more about money and expediency than art and process.
From Salon ● May 1, 2026
"After a really busy summer the city can look a bit grubby and that's just because we don't have the money to keep it to a good standard," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2025
Zed stuck his hand out and I forced myself to shake his grubby paw.
From "Lawn Boy Returns" by Gary Paulsen
As the name suggests, From The Pyre is darker, grubbier, more gothically grandiose than their critically acclaimed debut, Prelude To Ecstasy.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2025
After picking up trash on Earth Day, I suggest a grubbier summation: We are what we toss.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 2023
By the early 1960s, the crowds were seedier, the clubs grubbier and the production all but gone.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2022
But then she talks about the rewards of being a bus driver, especially with those riders whose appearance is grubbier than others’.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 2020
It could hardly have been grubbier if he had first rubbed his hands in the earth, and then had a good cry, and then dried his face with his hands.
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
His passion for theater, from its grubbiest particulars to its headiest heights, is the thread that binds together a slightly miscellaneous collection.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2021
The final reason practical effects are hip again is the grubbiest: they’re a piece of the swag we call “fan service.”
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 20, 2016
Sean Ingle dons his grubbiest Columbo mac to investigate.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 1, 2010
In that hard climb the grubbiest period is the year or two after medical school when the graduate doctor is fulfilling his interneship requirements.
From Time Magazine Archive
I suppose that all growing boys tend to be grubby; but the ornithological small boy, or indeed the boy with the taste for natural history of any kind, is generally the very grubbiest of all.
From Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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