grubbiness

Example Sentences

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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

It would like to remind you of “Fargo” — what with all the snow, the grubbiness and greed, the exaggerated accents and off-kilter rhythms — and it kind of does, but in a dispiriting way.

From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2012

But in spite of its grubbiness, or maybe because of it, it was a very certain-looking hand.

From "Raymie Nightingale" by Kate DiCamillo