grubby

Example Sentences

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In Mohit’s telling, Laxman seems merely grubby and small-minded.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

For admirers who like their Bard semidivine, it’s unappealing to think of him amid these grubby realities.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

Most recently, Wilson wrote Thursday that her father is a “delusional and grubby little control freak who hasn’t matured as a person for 38 years.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2024

For the next two frenetic hours, it repeatedly cuts back to the past — where a mother and child happily lived once upon a bucolic time — before returning to the grubby, raw-knuckle present.

From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2024

Dayah sweeps Alan’s hair from his hot face; Safaa spreads the loose end of Amin’s grubby headscarf across him for shade.

From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell