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Definition of grimy in English: grimyadjectivegrimiest, grimier ˈɡrʌɪmiˈɡraɪmi Covered with or characterized by grime. 满是污垢的，肮脏的 the grimy industrial city 肮脏的工业城市。 Example sentencesExamples - Add to that the fact that he never washed up and left bits of old takeaways lying around and you can get a good idea of how grimy this place was!
- All the children share two grimy double mattresses, on a double bunk in their tiny plywood bedroom.
- The men were all very grimy, and their weariness showed in their filthy faces.
- Still feeling grimy after the long day on the boat, she walked over to the washbasin to freshen up.
- What started as a pristine white shirt on Thursday morning was now really grimy.
- They wanted to shoot a car chase in a rundown alley but could not find anywhere sufficiently grimy and derelict.
- It is hoped it will change people's perception of Sheffield as a grimy city which has never quite managed to lose its industrial past.
- Behind a grimy, barred window sits a chain-smoking woman of indeterminate age.
- Out in the car park Damian wiped his grubby nose on an equally grimy handkerchief.
- Complete with sagging roof and grimy stairway, the flat was above a DIY shop and near a bus stop.
- In Hong Kong, the management suite moved from the tony Central district to a grimy industrial estate.
- The other location was York Street, a grimy thoroughfare running between Argyle Street and the river.
- I have a copy of the second edition, its original dust jacket tatty and grimy but intact.
- The security guard talks to someone on his radio and then pulls out a grimy duster and wipes the window clean.
- The campaign is part of a push to end Manchester's grimy industrial image and sell the city to the world as clean, green and modern.
- Pulling himself out from under the car, Jonnie Adair grabs a rag and wipes his grimy hands.
- I've been living here since 1996 and have come a long way from the grimy flat I shared with my best mate B. years ago.
- The city centre has been spruced up in recent years, although to look at the grimy exteriors you wouldn't know it.
- He was dressed in grimy black clothes and it must have been months since he had shaved or showered.
- During their imprisonment the couple, who claim they are innocent, were split up and put in grimy concrete cells.
Synonyms dirty, grimed, begrimed, grubby, soiled, stained, smeared, filthy, uncleaned, messy dirt-encrusted, smutty, sooty, dusty, muddy, muddied, mud-caked, polluted informal mucky, yucky, cruddy British informal manky, grotty, gungy Northern Irish informal bogging Australian/New Zealand scungy literary besmirched, besmeared
Derivativesadverb The Leopard is a picture of Fordian landscapes made grimily tactile through the sweat and dust coating the actors' tanned visages and finely tailored costumes. Example sentencesExamples - Tourist spots such as Trafalgar Square are depicted as grimily oppressive; Canary Wharf is full of ‘monstrous glass buildings’; Kings Cross Underground station is a hell-hole swarming with zombie-like commuters.
- Ian's vision began to brighten only gradually, so that he saw the whiteness - now streaked grimily - of his shirt first and then the light colors of Henry pullover and then the murkily lit basement chamber around him.
- It could almost have been a film of the old Hammer school - a Hammer film with a better budget, something which allows the presentation of Edinburgh as a grim and grimily realistic Victorian ghetto.
noun ˈɡrʌɪmnəsˈɡraɪminəs It wasn't that obvious, what with the griminess, but it was a long lab coat that had at one point been completely white. Example sentencesExamples - I was struck by the griminess of the locale.
- Glancing at the overall griminess of the place, however, he cast this idea aside.
- So anyway, I'm having a fun Saturday night - getting annoyed with the griminess of the cooker, so deciding to wipe it down.
- Both books leave you with a sense of sweaty griminess and a Joseph Conrad-like vision of the world.
Rhymesblimey, gorblimey, limey, slimy, stymie, thymy Definition of grimy in US English: grimyadjectiveˈɡrīmēˈɡraɪmi Covered with or characterized by grime. 满是污垢的，肮脏的 the grimy industrial city 肮脏的工业城市。 Example sentencesExamples - He was dressed in grimy black clothes and it must have been months since he had shaved or showered.
- Pulling himself out from under the car, Jonnie Adair grabs a rag and wipes his grimy hands.
- It is hoped it will change people's perception of Sheffield as a grimy city which has never quite managed to lose its industrial past.
- Still feeling grimy after the long day on the boat, she walked over to the washbasin to freshen up.
- Out in the car park Damian wiped his grubby nose on an equally grimy handkerchief.
- The other location was York Street, a grimy thoroughfare running between Argyle Street and the river.
- The security guard talks to someone on his radio and then pulls out a grimy duster and wipes the window clean.
- I've been living here since 1996 and have come a long way from the grimy flat I shared with my best mate B. years ago.
- During their imprisonment the couple, who claim they are innocent, were split up and put in grimy concrete cells.
- Behind a grimy, barred window sits a chain-smoking woman of indeterminate age.
- The campaign is part of a push to end Manchester's grimy industrial image and sell the city to the world as clean, green and modern.
- I have a copy of the second edition, its original dust jacket tatty and grimy but intact.
- The men were all very grimy, and their weariness showed in their filthy faces.
- Complete with sagging roof and grimy stairway, the flat was above a DIY shop and near a bus stop.
- The city centre has been spruced up in recent years, although to look at the grimy exteriors you wouldn't know it.
- What started as a pristine white shirt on Thursday morning was now really grimy.
- In Hong Kong, the management suite moved from the tony Central district to a grimy industrial estate.
- Add to that the fact that he never washed up and left bits of old takeaways lying around and you can get a good idea of how grimy this place was!
- They wanted to shoot a car chase in a rundown alley but could not find anywhere sufficiently grimy and derelict.
- All the children share two grimy double mattresses, on a double bunk in their tiny plywood bedroom.
Synonyms dirty, grimed, begrimed, grubby, soiled, stained, smeared, filthy, uncleaned, messy
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