grimy
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Grimy barracks and muggy Florida weather were replaced by clear skies and new facilities.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2024
Mayoral Candidates Recall the Days of Tiny, Grimy and Cheap One apartment did not have space for a bed.
From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2013
Tom Cipullo marshals the four singers for a blunt comic piece about the depredations of one route in “G Is for Grimy: An Ode to the G Train.”
From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2012
Grimy workers coming off duty shook hands with their King.
From Time Magazine Archive
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“Everyone! Especially folksingers and third-grade teachers. Grimy undergraduates and grammar school children are always chanting it like sorcerers.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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