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单词 grimy
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Examples of 'grimy' in a sentence
grimy

The cookers would be in a really dirty and grimy condition.This one is more up his street - dirty, grimy.I sipped a glass of candied champagne, and peered out a grimy window at the periphery of the eastern seaboard.Barmy as it sounds, this amazing gizmo performs miracles on dirty windows, grimy shower screens and greasy mirrors.But the grimy old city centre of not too long ago has now become one of Britain's most fashionable places to live.Nor can I deny that the sum total of life lived in that grimy city has a meaning for me beyond choice and deeper than contingency.

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grimy

British English: grimy ADJECTIVE
Something that is grimy is very dirty.
...a grimy industrial city.
  • American English: grimy
  • Brazilian Portuguese: encardido
  • Chinese: 肮脏的
  • European Spanish: mugriento
  • French: crasseux
  • German: schmutzig
  • Italian: sudicio
  • Japanese: とても汚い
  • Korean: 더러운
  • European Portuguese: encardido
  • Latin American Spanish: mugriento

(adjective) 
a grimy industrial city
Synonyms
dirty
The woman had matted hair and dirty fingernails.
polluted
filthy
He always wore a filthy old jacket.
soiled
foul
foul, polluted water
grubby
His white coat was grubby and stained.
sooty
unclean
By bathing in unclean water, they expose themselves to contamination.
grotty (slang)
smutty
She said she detested smutty jokes.
scuzzy (slang)
begrimed
skanky (slang)
besmirched
besmeared
festy (Australian, slang)

Additional synonyms

in the sense of filthy
He always wore a filthy old jacket.
Synonyms
grimy,
black,
muddy,
smoky,
blackened,
grubby,
sooty,
unwashed,
mucky,
scuzzy (slang, US),
begrimed,
skanky (slang),
mud-encrusted,
miry,
festy (Australian, slang)
in the sense of foul
Definition
full of dirt or offensive matter
foul, polluted water
Synonyms
dirty,
rank,
offensive,
nasty,
disgusting,
unpleasant,
revolting,
contaminated,
rotten,
polluted,
stinking,
filthy,
tainted,
grubby,
repellent,
squalid,
repulsive,
sullied,
grimy,
nauseating,
loathsome,
unclean,
impure,
grotty (slang),
fetid,
grungy (slang),
putrid,
malodorous,
noisome,
scuzzy (slang),
skanky (slang),
mephitic,
olid,
yucky or yukky (slang),
festy (Australian, slang),
yucko (Australian, slang)
in the sense of grubby
Definition
rather dirty
His white coat was grubby and stained.
Synonyms
dirty,
soiled,
filthy,
squalid,
messy,
shabby,
seedy,
scruffy,
sordid,
untidy,
grimy,
unwashed,
unkempt,
mucky,
smutty,
grungy (slang),
slovenly,
manky (Scottish, dialect),
scuzzy (slang),
skanky (slang),
scungy (Australian, New Zealand),
frowzy,
besmeared,
festy (Australian, slang)

Nearby words of
grimy

  • grim
  • grimace
  • grime
  • grimy
  • grin
  • grind
  • grind on

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