grubby
Example Sentences
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It also exposed the AI boom’s underbelly: the grubby sidedeals, financial anxieties, short tempers and personal vendettas that have shaped modern technology every bit as much as the march toward machine consciousness.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 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
The teenagers designed and tailored the outfits and also doubled up as models to showcase their creations, with the grubby walls and terraces of the slum providing the backdrop for their ramp walk.
From BBC • Nov. 22, 2024
Now, this evening, it had all turned from bright white flakes to grubby gray mush.
From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore
Vocabulary lists containing grubby
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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The Magician's Nephew
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