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

The deep shadows, the mean co-workers, and the general grubbiness of Simon James’ surroundings are all meant to make the corporate world look grimly dystopian.

From The Verge • Dec. 7, 2018

Now that the living-room carpet could be kept perfectly clean, it had to be; now that clothes never needed to be grubby, grubbiness was all the more taboo.

From The Guardian • Dec. 22, 2016

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

My hands are greasy, which only adds to my growing feeling of grubbiness.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins