grubbiness

How to use grubbiness in a sentence

• She did repay it, because she had no desires towards grubbiness or rebellion, or any wildnesses whatever.

  The Golden Scarecrow | Hugh Walpole

• That first bathe seemed to wash away all the heat and smoke and grubbiness of dear old London.

  Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light | Vera C. Barclay

• It was M.D. who sent me there by scolding me into realization of my grubbiness four years ago; I want to have my honeymoon there.

  Jane Journeys On | Ruth Comfort Mitchell