down and dirty

Example Sentences

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In a series rife with story angles and subplots — alleged cheap shots perpetrated by each team, off-ice drama, injuries — it was good, old-fashioned down-and-dirty hockey that mesmerized most thoroughly.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 30, 2023

But they did make it onto the stage, backed by a string quartet and tearing through the down-and-dirty riffs of their opening number, Smile.

From BBC • Jun. 24, 2022

All those recordings are in this eight-disc box, a set that highlights the duo’s knack for lullabies, legends and down-and-dirty country.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2020

Still, for down-and-dirty “war medicine,” as he calls it, nothing matches what he went through in the first months of Covid-19 in New York City.

From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2020

Wood got involved in a down-and-dirty lawsuit with the Cooke capitalists.

From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce