grubby

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

I understand every grubby, rotten impulse of the bereaved.

From Slate ● Apr. 23, 2026

He stress-tests our icky, grubby pity for Matthew and, beyond that, the flimsiness of modern fame culture and its fake-it-till-you-make-it inspirational platitudes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2025

So I changed into grubby jeans and reached for my hat, my Baltimore Orioles cap, but then I thought, no, this was the hat that Ben wore just before he died.

From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings

Brazil’s slower pace of life also appeals to migrants such as Rogelio Naranjo, who works in a Cuban barbershop on the grubbier outskirts of Curitiba.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

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

The bathroom is grubbier than the rest of the house: grime around the sink, toothpaste smeared on the mirror.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins

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

To be sure, these 33 hours or so of recorded talks are a minuscule fraction of Richard Nixon's presidential conversations—and, one can only hope, the grubbiest fraction.

From Time Magazine Archive

The third passenger, the grubbiest of the three grubs, was a nondescript of whose presence Jerry was not even aware until she heard his voice.

From The Reclaimers by McCarter, Margaret Hill