Grimy
['graɪmɪ] or ['ɡraɪmi]
Definition
(superl.) Full of grime; begrimed; dirty; foul.
Edited by Lancelot
Examples
- When his host followed him out on the staircase with a candle, to light him down the stairs, the day was coldly looking in through its grimy windows. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- In the far corner was a smithy, where a grimy lad was at work. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It was a bit of grimy, white paper roughly folded into a ragged square. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Occasionally he has exhibited a rather amateurish effort to be grimy and shirt-sleeved. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Editor: Ronda