grubby
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The floor was so grubby that the thought of sitting anywhere on it was nauseating — and regardless, the lanes were now too dark for reading, lit primarily by bright neon stripes and squiggles.
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026
It also exposed the AI boom’s underbelly: the grubby sidedeals, financial anxieties, short tempers and personal vendettas that have shaped modern technology every bit as much as the march toward machine consciousness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026
I understand every grubby, rotten impulse of the bereaved.
From Slate ● Apr. 23, 2026
He stress-tests our icky, grubby pity for Matthew and, beyond that, the flimsiness of modern fame culture and its fake-it-till-you-make-it inspirational platitudes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2025
“Any boy with grubby fingers can flail about. Only you can open it. You are Anansesem—act like it.”
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
As the name suggests, From The Pyre is darker, grubbier, more gothically grandiose than their critically acclaimed debut, Prelude To Ecstasy.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2025
After picking up trash on Earth Day, I suggest a grubbier summation: We are what we toss.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 2023
By the early 1960s, the crowds were seedier, the clubs grubbier and the production all but gone.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2022
But then she talks about the rewards of being a bus driver, especially with those riders whose appearance is grubbier than others’.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 2020
The bathroom is grubbier than the rest of the house: grime around the sink, toothpaste smeared on the mirror.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
His passion for theater, from its grubbiest particulars to its headiest heights, is the thread that binds together a slightly miscellaneous collection.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2021
The final reason practical effects are hip again is the grubbiest: they’re a piece of the swag we call “fan service.”
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 20, 2016
Sean Ingle dons his grubbiest Columbo mac to investigate.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 1, 2010
To be sure, these 33 hours or so of recorded talks are a minuscule fraction of Richard Nixon's presidential conversations—and, one can only hope, the grubbiest fraction.
From Time Magazine Archive
And I made up my mind, then and there, that next Christmas there should be a tree for all the littlest and grubbiest children in my old home.
From The Fairies and the Christmas Child by Lilian Gask
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