grimy

Much about the grimy parts of Burning Man is left unmentioned, leaving it up to Redditors to gripe about sanitation pile-ups departing Burners leave in nearby towns.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026

A plainspoken veteran with a dense beard and a closet full of grimy sweatshirts, Platner fit the bill.

From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2026

Samantha’s father hires Nana away from her grimy pub-cleaning job to answer the phone at his taxi service: a good-hearted gesture or a bribe to keep her and Janey quiet?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026

It was still grimy, but MacArthur Park’s famed beauty was there, a beauty unmatched by newer parks — if only Hernandez and others could burnish it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026

Then she marched back to the front of the class, dusting off her hands one against the other like someone who has been handling something rather grimy.

From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl

This is a grimier entry, more likely to break with convention — one where the white mask of its serial killer Ghostface is scuffed up.

From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2023

At the Brit Awards, they traded the fiery red aesthetic for a grimier, postapocalyptic, Mad Max-inspired look, drawing more from the music video’s auto “body shop” themes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2023

That’s some harsh harrumphing there, but those addled with a grimier affliction — American football — might have felt similar pangs during this season and this Heisman Trophy chase.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 2021

The “Cinema Novo” movement of social realism commented and pushed back against this political shift, but in that same year, a singular iconoclast mounted a grimier, bloodier form of rebellion newly relevant to our present.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 30, 2020

It’s grimier than when I clean my usual spot at lunch.

From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty

By novel’s end, anyplace — even the grimiest, meanest streets of hard-boiled crime fiction — seem preferable to the sinister and silent watchfulness of the lush Irish countryside.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 5, 2020

Deep-cleaning crews have visited many of the grimiest concrete subterranean stations — in some cases, for the first time in years.

From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2017

And it’s hands down, to quote Beyoncé, the grimiest song I’ve heard all year.

From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2014

Young Jon, however, insisted on driving around in a beat-up van and eating in the grimiest diners possible.

From Time ● May 12, 2011

Every inch of grass was covered with tents—row after crooked row of the grimiest, droopiest tents Nate had ever seen.

From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis