grubby

"After a really busy summer the city can look a bit grubby and that's just because we don't have the money to keep it to a good standard," he said.

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.

There were a few water taps around the edges but no proper showers and only grubby blankets on the floor.

A massive "Home Furnishings" banner glares over the line of grubby once-white caravans, many with padlocked doors and windows taped shut.

At the risk of sounding like a grubby leftist that Republicans want to ignore, but the GOP has what you might call a collective action problem.