Grubby

The phrase "British cinema documentary" came to mean a black and white collage of steam locomotives, slag heaps, women in grubby kitchens and men in flat caps, searchlights and bomb damage. ❋ Ian Jack (2010)

Are they scriveners churning out what the novelist Richard Yates himself a sometimes adman called "grubby little jobs for hire," or are they skilled poets performing on a commercial canvas? ❋ Unknown (2011)

Thereupon he engages in what can only be described as a grubby piece of attempted blackmail of his party leader which was rightly rebuffed. ❋ Unknown (2007)

From being so much with the judges, I grew quite learned in French legal terms, talked of the parquet (which means the Bar), and invariably termed the grubby little Nyons law-court the Palais. ❋ Frederick Spencer Hamilton (1892)

I plan to double what I regularly give to the Obama campaign as an affirmative protest against this kind of grubby low-level attack. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In the book she recalls him noticing they were "grubby" after a journey from Vienna, and showing them to the bathroom, where he had brushes inscribed "AH". ❋ Unknown (2010)

The group had been told to dress "grubby," bring tools, and, now, to "buddy up." ❋ Unknown (2009)

March 26th, 2009 2: 21pm stanley Jerusalem - the sheriff is becoming more and bitter. note his words now descending to "grubby" it could be the arrow festering in the toches or tasting the bitter herbs ahead of pesach - he digs bigger holes for himself with every essay he sends, and for what purpose except possibly to amuse - offen yam you know the beginning alanadale ❋ Unknown (2009)

AM says she was left feeling 'grubby' after transport staff failed to show sufficient deference. ❋ Glyn Davies (2007)

It was precisely the kind of grubby horsetrading which it is hard to imagine the single-minded Brown engaging in. ❋ Unknown (2006)

It was not the average "grubby" corruption case courts usually had to work with. ❋ Unknown (2006)

However, on returning more recently they just seem kind of grubby, smelly and warehousey compared to the clean, bright British equivalents. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Like all other matters involving care and thoroughness, it takes a good deal of time, and no small amount of trouble; but apart from these considerations there is no reason why any bibliophile endowed with patience and a capacity for taking pains, should not attend to the washing of his more 'grubby' volumes himself. ❋ P. B. M. Allan (N/A)

So reversing the order of Nature, the butterfly had retired into a 'grubby' state. ❋ Unknown (1907)

She thought of him as "grubby," whatever that meant, because she did not like him, but it was even more maddening for her to think of Olga Tcherny's portrait, which, in spite of her flippant remarks, she had been forced to admit revealed a knowledge of feminine psychology that had excited her amazement and admiration. ❋ George Gibbs (1906)

Danny Dyer wants to wash Nicola Roberts because she looks "grubby". ❋ Unknown (2010)

Labour blast 'grubby' pact as SNP strike deal with Tories to ensure £35bn Scots budget can go through Blow for SNP as councillor switches to Labour over GARL and Lockerbie rows Sex scandal claim MP Nigel Griffiths to quit Parliament at general election ❋ Unknown (2010)