Definition of Grubbily

1. Adverb. In a dingy manner.

Exact synonyms: Dingily, Grungily
Partainyms: Dingy, Grubby, Grungy

Definition of Grubbily

1. Adverb. In a grubby manner ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Grubbily

1. grubby [adv] - See also: grubby

Lexicographical Neighbors of Grubbily

grozing irons
grr
grrr
grrrl
grrrls
grub
grub out
grub up
grubbed
grubber
grubber kick
grubbers
grubbier
grubbies
grubbiest
grubbily (current term)
grubbiness
grubbinesses
grubbing
grubble
grubbled
grubbles
grubbling
grubby
grublike
grubs
grubstake
grubstaked
grubstaker
grubstakers

Literary usage of Grubbily

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Little Essays in Literature and Life by Richard Burton (1914)
"You, for instance, have not worked underground and grubbily to escape from the company of your brothers uncatalogued; you have not stooped ..."

2. A Private in the Guards by Stephen Graham (1919)
"He was grubbily but methodically examining the corpses of the German machine- gunners and hoping to pick up a revolver. I watched him examine one without ..."

3. An American's London by Louise Closser Hale (1920)
"... has found that the girl of the East End is just as willing to be clean and do things beautifully in a kitchen as to be a slattern and do them grubbily. ..."

4. To China and back: being a diary kept, out and home by Albert Smith (1859)
"... entered the harbour of Alexandria, piloted in by an Arab, grubbily resplendent with the dirty finery that characterises the Eastern races generally. ..."

5. Rome and Venice: With Other Wanderings in Italy, in 1866-7 by George Augustus Sala (1869)
"They have nothing to do with the interesting antiquity of the Republican or the Imperial epochs. They are simply nastily old, grubbily antique ..."

6. A Son of Austerity by George Knight (1912)
"When, however, he had turned into the sordid street— grubbily decorous in its Sunday calm—his limbs were trembling and his mouth parched. ..."

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