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Definition of gritty in English: grittyadjectivegrittiest, grittier ˈɡrɪtiˈɡrɪdi 1Containing or covered with grit. a stone floor that was gritty and unswept Example sentencesExamples - When the hard anthracite coal is mined the very fine, gritty material is called culm.
- By the next day, between a quarter and an eighth-inch of gritty, gray volcanic debris covered everything.
- A grainy or gritty texture isn't considered a plus in the chocolate world.
- The meatloaf was hard, and the mashed potatoes were gritty.
- Shadow areas often take on a gritty or rough textured appearance.
- This time, the main concern was a significant ash plume carrying gritty pulverized rock and silica that could damage aircraft engines and the surfaces of cars and homes.
- Limestone comes in a range of guises from soft open poured travertine tiles to gritty, rugged flags.
- Feeling incredibly dirty and gritty, from all the dirt that she was covered under from her ride, Ari ran a bath for herself and scrubbed herself clean.
- He felt like hell when he came back to consciousness, bruised and covered in gritty sand.
- The stuff isn't harmful in any way; it just tastes a little gritty and sticks to your teeth.
- Also, the underlayer of cement primer makes the ochre-gold acrylic surface look gritty and holds the tendency towards the decorative in counterpoint.
- His forehead is pressed against the rough, gritty plaster of the wall, sharp against his nose.
- The rough stones jutting out from the gritty mud walls appeal to my visual and tactile senses.
- Blood is running freely from his nose and an open wound on his head, and he's covered in gritty, grey dust.
- The rocky, gritty soil offers perfect drainage, but digging is nearly impossible.
- Everywhere there was desolation - trees black and bare-limbed and the ground covered with gritty black ash.
- Fill with stones until three-quarters full then top up with gravel and a layer of very gritty compost on top, about 3in deep.
- I was apparently indoors, though the floor was dingy and muddy and covered in gritty sand.
- He ran a hand through his hair which felt rough and gritty.
- I kick up dust for those behind me and the gritty gravel sandpapers their wounds.
Synonyms sandy, grainy, granular, gravelly, pebbly, stony powdery, dusty 2Showing courage and resolve. a typically gritty performance by the British player Example sentencesExamples - If and when it comes to pass, then Carlow could become a very serious contender, given the gritty way they have played against several teams with full-timers on board.
- In a typically gritty display they hauled themselves back into the tie and earned themselves another chance to progress.
- To claim that the All-Ireland champions performed badly on the day would do an injustice to the visitors' gritty performance.
- The general mood is slight shock, covered by a gritty determination to get on with whatever needs to be done.
- Only a few metres separated the pair as they charged off the fell and in the 100 metre sprint to the line Till managed to get onto Fretwell's tail and each showed a gritty determination to win.
- He's polite, asking permission to smoke; but still, there seems something very gritty and determined about him these days.
- Of modern Australian batsmen that I have seen, the best was Chappell, who had great power and elegance, plus gritty determination when he needed it.
- John produced a gritty performance just to finish, when others were falling about him.
- He's been a wonderful Captain, a wonderful batsmen, a gritty, determined competitor.
- The same gritty determination holds true when it comes to answering a physical challenge.
- His story is partly one of gritty determination, perfectionism and hard work.
- Some people I spoke to gardened under very difficult circumstances, but gritty determination was winning the way towards a beautiful back yard.
- Theirs was a gritty performance which belied their recent run of form.
- Her courage, gritty determination and undoubted commitment to charity work is held in high regard throughout the world.
- England's qualification will rely on some gritty away performances and I feel they may be few and far between.
- The reason for India's good performance in the last couple of years was due to the solid performance of this gritty batsman.
- Although seldom looking a danger they showed gritty determination to keep their line intact.
- He outmanoeuvred and overpowered the gritty Australian to race through the opening two sets, hitting the corners of the court at will with his heavy groundstrokes.
- The Western Bulldogs are both a very gritty football side and a classy side.
- They will certainly be competitive because they have some pretty gritty characters in there.
Synonyms courageous, brave, plucky, mettlesome, stout-hearted, lionhearted, valiant, bold, spirited, intrepid, game, hardy, tough, steely, determined, resolute, purposeful dogged, tenacious, enduring, unfaltering, unswerving, unyielding, unflinching informal gutsy, spunky, ballsy, feisty rare perseverant - 2.1 Showing something unpleasant as it really is; uncompromising.
a gritty look at urban life Example sentencesExamples - The cinematography has a gritty, tough beauty to it.
- Shooting the entire series on location in Baltimore was an essential part of this rough, gritty feel.
- His love of gritty realism and distaste for overblown production values go back to Blackburn, where Winterbottom was born in 1961.
- However, inmates still request the gritty urban tales.
- This initial sequence of violence and sex is, utterly disturbing, gritty realism, set against a wider social violence.
- The action takes place in a single subway car, and the company worked hard to capture the gritty, anonymous feel of the underground.
- With this film, Loach digresses from his usual gritty themes of social realism to pose questions of culture, race and religion.
- Instead, they will experience first-hand the often gritty reality of big city life in what has been titled ‘The Alternative London Trip’.
- These images have none of the airbrushed niceties of much modern photography, and you pay for the gritty realism.
- It took the genre back to its gritty and violently uncompromising origin.
- Right from the beginning of the pilot, what I liked about it was its gritty realism.
- York Central is an industrial wasteland of the type favoured by gritty cop dramas.
- The film has a very gritty, realistic feel, again lifting it above being a merely stereotypical genre exercise.
- Australian landscape painting is perhaps better known for scenes of the vast uninhabited bush, or else gritty urban scenes.
- But my appetite was whetted and I craved more gritty details.
- This form of gritty realist cinema relies upon constant improvisation.
- Gritty political realities aside, what future do people envision for Yugoslavia?
- It has that gritty realism that small budget English films are becoming known for, but plenty of lighter moments to balance the gloom.
- As such, the photographs tell a collective story - one that is clearly shaped by editors who seek gritty and unflinching pictures.
- The stories are mostly pretty gritty - loneliness, alienation and all that - but amazingly, the movie is so deftly handled as to never be too heavy.
Synonyms realistic, true to life, unembellished, unvarnished, naked, bare, brutal, harsh
Derivatives adverb It's what one might expect from an artist renowned for his bitterness and grittily unpleasant realism. Example sentencesExamples - It was grittily down-to-earth, absorbing, and best of all, made me want to re-read some of Murdoch's novels.
- The film feels grittily authentic at times and like a comic road movie at others.
- There was a sense in the 1970s that to be a proper Scottish writer you had to be grittily realistic.
- But grittily, the Welsh hung on, preserving their culture and sense of identity.
noun ˈɡrɪtɪnəsˈɡrɪdinəs ‘They're two players you don't want to have missing from your side because of their grittiness and attitude,’ added Holmes. Example sentencesExamples - Students can learn about the texture of the soil in the site by using methods such as rubbing soil between fingers to assess grittiness, smoothness and stickiness.
- The capital city's okay, but has a grittiness to it which I hadn't expected.
- So even though it was fictional, there was a grittiness and a realism to it that was different.
- Soup of the day was a very fine cauliflower and Stilton, and it had none of the grittiness that often seems to accompany this dish.
Rhymes banditti, bitty, chitty, city, committee, ditty, intercity, kitty, megacity, nitty-gritty, Pitti, pity, pretty, slitty, smriti, spitty, vittae, witty Definition of gritty in US English: grittyadjectiveˈɡridēˈɡrɪdi 1Containing or covered with grit. Example sentencesExamples - I kick up dust for those behind me and the gritty gravel sandpapers their wounds.
- Feeling incredibly dirty and gritty, from all the dirt that she was covered under from her ride, Ari ran a bath for herself and scrubbed herself clean.
- I was apparently indoors, though the floor was dingy and muddy and covered in gritty sand.
- His forehead is pressed against the rough, gritty plaster of the wall, sharp against his nose.
- Shadow areas often take on a gritty or rough textured appearance.
- He ran a hand through his hair which felt rough and gritty.
- Fill with stones until three-quarters full then top up with gravel and a layer of very gritty compost on top, about 3in deep.
- The rough stones jutting out from the gritty mud walls appeal to my visual and tactile senses.
- The meatloaf was hard, and the mashed potatoes were gritty.
- This time, the main concern was a significant ash plume carrying gritty pulverized rock and silica that could damage aircraft engines and the surfaces of cars and homes.
- The stuff isn't harmful in any way; it just tastes a little gritty and sticks to your teeth.
- Also, the underlayer of cement primer makes the ochre-gold acrylic surface look gritty and holds the tendency towards the decorative in counterpoint.
- The rocky, gritty soil offers perfect drainage, but digging is nearly impossible.
- Limestone comes in a range of guises from soft open poured travertine tiles to gritty, rugged flags.
- By the next day, between a quarter and an eighth-inch of gritty, gray volcanic debris covered everything.
- Everywhere there was desolation - trees black and bare-limbed and the ground covered with gritty black ash.
- He felt like hell when he came back to consciousness, bruised and covered in gritty sand.
- Blood is running freely from his nose and an open wound on his head, and he's covered in gritty, grey dust.
- A grainy or gritty texture isn't considered a plus in the chocolate world.
- When the hard anthracite coal is mined the very fine, gritty material is called culm.
Synonyms sandy, grainy, granular, gravelly, pebbly, stony 2Showing courage and resolve. Example sentencesExamples - The same gritty determination holds true when it comes to answering a physical challenge.
- The Western Bulldogs are both a very gritty football side and a classy side.
- Theirs was a gritty performance which belied their recent run of form.
- They will certainly be competitive because they have some pretty gritty characters in there.
- His story is partly one of gritty determination, perfectionism and hard work.
- In a typically gritty display they hauled themselves back into the tie and earned themselves another chance to progress.
- Her courage, gritty determination and undoubted commitment to charity work is held in high regard throughout the world.
- John produced a gritty performance just to finish, when others were falling about him.
- Some people I spoke to gardened under very difficult circumstances, but gritty determination was winning the way towards a beautiful back yard.
- He's been a wonderful Captain, a wonderful batsmen, a gritty, determined competitor.
- Although seldom looking a danger they showed gritty determination to keep their line intact.
- To claim that the All-Ireland champions performed badly on the day would do an injustice to the visitors' gritty performance.
- Of modern Australian batsmen that I have seen, the best was Chappell, who had great power and elegance, plus gritty determination when he needed it.
- England's qualification will rely on some gritty away performances and I feel they may be few and far between.
- He's polite, asking permission to smoke; but still, there seems something very gritty and determined about him these days.
- If and when it comes to pass, then Carlow could become a very serious contender, given the gritty way they have played against several teams with full-timers on board.
- The general mood is slight shock, covered by a gritty determination to get on with whatever needs to be done.
- Only a few metres separated the pair as they charged off the fell and in the 100 metre sprint to the line Till managed to get onto Fretwell's tail and each showed a gritty determination to win.
- The reason for India's good performance in the last couple of years was due to the solid performance of this gritty batsman.
- He outmanoeuvred and overpowered the gritty Australian to race through the opening two sets, hitting the corners of the court at will with his heavy groundstrokes.
Synonyms courageous, brave, plucky, mettlesome, stout-hearted, lionhearted, valiant, bold, spirited, intrepid, game, hardy, tough, steely, determined, resolute, purposeful - 2.1 Tough and uncompromising.
a gritty look at urban life Example sentencesExamples - The action takes place in a single subway car, and the company worked hard to capture the gritty, anonymous feel of the underground.
- With this film, Loach digresses from his usual gritty themes of social realism to pose questions of culture, race and religion.
- Shooting the entire series on location in Baltimore was an essential part of this rough, gritty feel.
- Australian landscape painting is perhaps better known for scenes of the vast uninhabited bush, or else gritty urban scenes.
- These images have none of the airbrushed niceties of much modern photography, and you pay for the gritty realism.
- His love of gritty realism and distaste for overblown production values go back to Blackburn, where Winterbottom was born in 1961.
- The stories are mostly pretty gritty - loneliness, alienation and all that - but amazingly, the movie is so deftly handled as to never be too heavy.
- However, inmates still request the gritty urban tales.
- This form of gritty realist cinema relies upon constant improvisation.
- This initial sequence of violence and sex is, utterly disturbing, gritty realism, set against a wider social violence.
- Instead, they will experience first-hand the often gritty reality of big city life in what has been titled ‘The Alternative London Trip’.
- Right from the beginning of the pilot, what I liked about it was its gritty realism.
- The film has a very gritty, realistic feel, again lifting it above being a merely stereotypical genre exercise.
- It took the genre back to its gritty and violently uncompromising origin.
- But my appetite was whetted and I craved more gritty details.
- York Central is an industrial wasteland of the type favoured by gritty cop dramas.
- The cinematography has a gritty, tough beauty to it.
- As such, the photographs tell a collective story - one that is clearly shaped by editors who seek gritty and unflinching pictures.
- Gritty political realities aside, what future do people envision for Yugoslavia?
- It has that gritty realism that small budget English films are becoming known for, but plenty of lighter moments to balance the gloom.
Synonyms realistic, true to life, unembellished, unvarnished, naked, bare, brutal, harsh
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