grimy
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Much about the grimy parts of Burning Man is left unmentioned, leaving it up to Redditors to gripe about sanitation pile-ups departing Burners leave in nearby towns.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026
A plainspoken veteran with a dense beard and a closet full of grimy sweatshirts, Platner fit the bill.
From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2026
I thought of the name of Tom Wolfe’s then-recent final novel, “Back to Blood”: The world is going back to something basic, grimy and tribal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
Cohn’s sound design also offered a taste of the grimy, intense New York of the 1970s, but he wanted to remain flexible in terms of period fidelity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025
An oval Mylar mirror hangs above the sink, and when I wash my hands, I notice my grimy face.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
More than a decade after scam rap emerged from the buzzier, grimier corners of Detroit hip-hop, a scammer anthem from a South Floridian is arguably the song of the summer.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026
In the 1970s and ’80s, New York became rougher and grimier, and he changed with it.
From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2022
Though not exactly nostalgic for grimier times, she eventually finds she’s become an old-timer, no longer delighted by change.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2022
That’s some harsh harrumphing there, but those addled with a grimier affliction — American football — might have felt similar pangs during this season and this Heisman Trophy chase.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 2021
It’s grimier than when I clean my usual spot at lunch.
From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty
By novel’s end, anyplace — even the grimiest, meanest streets of hard-boiled crime fiction — seem preferable to the sinister and silent watchfulness of the lush Irish countryside.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 5, 2020
Deep-cleaning crews have visited many of the grimiest concrete subterranean stations — in some cases, for the first time in years.
From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2017
And it’s hands down, to quote Beyoncé, the grimiest song I’ve heard all year.
From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2014
Young Jon, however, insisted on driving around in a beat-up van and eating in the grimiest diners possible.
From Time ● May 12, 2011
Every inch of grass was covered with tents—row after crooked row of the grimiest, droopiest tents Nate had ever seen.
From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis
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