Gritty
['grɪtɪ] or ['grɪti]
Definition
(a.) Containing sand or grit; consisting of grit; caused by grit; full of hard particles.
(a.) Spirited; resolute; unyielding.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Sandy.
Typed by Cyril
Examples
- Yet forward she went, through the whole sordid gamut of pettiness, the long amorphous, gritty street. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- A chief and highly nourishing object of food would doubtlessly be bones smashed up into a stiff and gritty paste. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But he had made his hands all dirty and gritty. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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