grubbyadjective
uk/ˈɡrʌb.i/us/ˈɡrʌb.i/informal dirty:
He was wearing some old shorts and a grubby T-shirt.
Don't wipe your grubby hands on my clean towel!
disapproving If you describe an activity or someone's behaviour as grubby, you do not think that it is honest, fair, or acceptable:
She sees the business of making money as just grubby opportunism.
He doesn't want this story to get into the grubby hands of the tabloid press (= to be obtained by newspapers that are not honest and fair).
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Dirty & untidy
- -stained
- all over the place idiom
- besmeared
- bespattered
- bloodstained
- cat
- inky
- manky
- messy
- mucky
- ragged
- ragtag
- squalid
- streaky
- tangle
- tangled
- tarnish
- tousled
- unclean
- unkempt
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