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

So, too, is the film’s music, composer Anthony Willis and soundtrack artist Charlie XCX entwining raspy strings with grimy, ominous shudders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026

I thought of the name of Tom Wolfe’s then-recent final novel, “Back to Blood”: The world is going back to something basic, grimy and tribal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

It took her a while to find the Hidden Market, but once she arrived on that grimy canalway, she had spied two men—one massive, one short—hawking orbs on a rickety table.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat

More than a decade after scam rap emerged from the buzzier, grimier corners of Detroit hip-hop, a scammer anthem from a South Floridian is arguably the song of the summer.

From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026

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

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

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

“The difference in the game was we were playing basketball, and they were playing MMA,” Millsap said, frustrated after one of the grimiest 114-107 games you ever will witness.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 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