grubbiness
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
It also gives Blumhouse’s output a sheen that’s sometimes detrimental to the horror genre, where at least some grubbiness and disreputability is necessary, to make viewers uncomfortable.
From The Verge ● Oct. 5, 2018
Now that the living-room carpet could be kept perfectly clean, it had to be; now that clothes never needed to be grubby, grubbiness was all the more taboo.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 22, 2016
The characters in “Flaked” are experiencing a marginalization-in-progress, exemplified by an everyday grubbiness and a sense of loss and personal failure.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2016
It would like to remind you of “Fargo” — what with all the snow, the grubbiness and greed, the exaggerated accents and off-kilter rhythms — and it kind of does, but in a dispiriting way.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2012
All that effort and sweat and disgusting grubbiness, all those endless plodding days, the nights on hard ground—all that added up to just 39.5 percent of the trail.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
