grubbiness

Example Sentences

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As Long Island City, which had bizarrely seemed doomed to eternal grubbiness despite its boffo view of the skyline, got MoMA PS1, Silvercup Studios and rents of $4,000 a month.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2019

It also gives Blumhouse’s output a sheen that’s sometimes detrimental to the horror genre, where at least some grubbiness and disreputability is necessary, to make viewers uncomfortable.

From The Verge • Oct. 5, 2018

The ­characters in “Flaked” are ­experiencing a marginalization-in-progress, exemplified by an everyday grubbiness and a sense of loss and personal failure.

From Washington Post • Mar. 10, 2016

A musician in flight from London, he loiters in his family's mouldering country home: Tom Scutt's design wittily conjures up the grubbiness, the antlers on the wall, the superfluous rugs.

From The Guardian • Jan. 20, 2013

I’ve been riding in the back of the car for two days, sleeping in a tent; I’m conscious of my grubbiness, my unbrushed hair.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood