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Definition of Grubbily
1. Adverb. In a dingy manner.
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
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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