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Definition of Grimy

1. Adjective. Thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot. "A grungy kitchen"

Definition of Grimy

1. a. Full of grime; begrimed; dirty; foul.

Definition of Grimy

1. Adjective. stained, or covered with grime ¹

2. Adjective. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Grimy

1. dirty [adj GRIMIER, GRIMIEST] - See also: dirty

Lexicographical Neighbors of Grimy

Literary usage of Grimy

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

1. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
"grimy marine dealer's shop beyond the Liffey he would repeat the song by Ben Jonson which begins: / was not wearier where I lay. 9 His mind when wearied of ..."

2. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1883)
"splashed with silver buttons, some of them as big as small saucers, and our grimy, oily engineer of the day before ! The vessel was a very Al of its kind, ..."

3. Sketching rambles in Holland by George Henry Boughton (1885)
"The grimy engineer entertained us with an ... as much of this was prodded into one by means of his grimy forefinger on some part of his hearer's clothing, ..."

4. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (2006)
"... in a grimy housecoat, guitar on his lap, eyes closed, concentrating on the screams he was wringing from the instrument's long neck. ..."

5. The Civil War in Song and Story, 1860-1865 by Frank Moore (1889)
"Look at my grimy features : mountains between us when all is over, With the red stream of my life-blood staining the jewelled hand ! What care I ? ..."

6. The English Illustrated Magazine (1890)
"As I return home this evening, I meet my small friend Tommy—or if his name isn't Tommy, it ought to be—a grimy, but sweet-faced little rascal, playing about ..."

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