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Definition of Grungy

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

Definition of Grungy

1. Adjective. Dirty; shabby; in disrepair. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Grungy

1. dirty [adj -GIER, -GIEST] - See also: dirty

Lexicographical Neighbors of Grungy

Literary usage of Grungy

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

1. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (2006)
"He was roundly ignored—and before he could speak again, one of the PCs on the floor started booming out fuzzy, grungy rockabilly music that made him think ..."

2. The US Virgin Islands Alive! by Harriet Greenberg, Douglas Greenberg (2006)
"Styles range from grungy tees and jeans to silk cocktail wear. Local Color, Royal Dane Mall. Brand-name resortwear such as Jams World and Urban Safari are ..."

3. The Chicago Daily News Almanac and Year Book for by Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1905)
"... GrunGy, Elbert H. Hubbard, Rep 28562 Jones, Linn, Marshall and Tama. Peter D. Van Oosterhout, Dam 13521 Robert G. Cousins, ..."

4. Dutch Type by Jan Middendorp (2004)
"Having graduated from the Amsterdam Rietveld Academy in 1994, his early typefaces were derivative and grungy; but his interest in letterforms deepened and ..."

5. Concrete Abstractions: An Introduction to Computer Science Using Scheme by Max Hailperin, Barbara Kaiser, Karl Knight (1999)
"To tell you the full story would get into grungy details of input that you can probably afford to ignore, because most Java programs don't interact this way ..."

6. The High Performance Toolbox: Succeeding With Performance Tasks, Projects by Spence Rogers, Shari Graham (1998)
"It's pretty grungy and much used, but to age it even further, I tear off pieces to get a ragged edge, paint them, and sand them. ..."

7. Toronto by Jennifer McMorran, Alain Rondeau (2002)
"... The Cameron House has been transformed over the years from a grungy drinking pub to an eccentric cocktail lounge. DJs liven up the front room, ..."

8. Berlinby Jack Altman by Jack Altman (2000)
"Bookshops, art galleries, gourmet restaurants and grungy-chic bars abound. The fauna here recall colourful characters satirized in the 1920s by Berlin ..."

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