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Definition of Grittiest
1. gritty [adj] - See also: gritty
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grittiest
Literary usage of Grittiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly (1887)
"... and still another quality, the whitest and grittiest, which becomes "flint,"
or what might be called absolutely transparent glass. ..."
2. Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads by John Avery Lomax (1918)
"... a mean, fighting son of a gun, Who was the grittiest cuss that ever pulled a
gun. Such an educated feller his thoughts just came in herds, ..."
3. The Writings of Bret Harte by Bret Harte (1896)
"You don't really mean to say, major," she began in her driest, grittiest
manner, "that instead of sending to San Francisco for some skilled master mechanic, ..."
4. A Political History of the State of New York by De Alva Stanwood Alexander (1906)
"... setting up the then novel and unpopular defence of insanity, and establishing
himself as one of the ablest and grittiest lawyers in the State. ..."
5. The English Rock-garden by Reginald John Farrer (1919)
"They should have choice positions in the grittiest and stoniest underground-watered
bed of sandy, peaty leaf-mould, for they do not always take to the ..."
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