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Definition of Grubbiest
1. grubby [adj] - See also: grubby
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grubbiest
Literary usage of Grubbiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1921)
"GRUB STREET from its grubbiest garret to its tortuous end in the publishers'
sanctums and the commuters' train is the material from which Christopher Morley ..."
2. Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt (1913)
"... but the ornithological small boy, or indeed the boy with the taste for natural
history of any kind, is generally the very grubbiest of all. ..."
3. The Bookman (1910)
"The grubbiest ragamuffin may ask an emperor for a light, and the emperor will
recognise that, by the I^aw of the Jungle, it is not only his duty but his ..."
4. The Life of Theodore Roosevelt by William Draper Lewis (1919)
"... but the ornithological small boy, or indeed the boy with the taste for natural
history of any kind, is generally the very grubbiest of all. ..."
5. The New Baedeker: Being Casual Notes of an Irresponsible Traveller by Harry Thurston Peck (1910)
"The grubbiest ragamuffin may ask an emperor for a light, and the emperor will
recognise that, by the Law of the Jungle, it is not only his duty but his ..."
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