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Caked with crud
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grimy
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Word definitions in WordNet
adj. thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen" [syn: begrimed , dingy , grubby , grungy , raunchy ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grimy \Grim"y\, a. [Compar. Grimier ; superl. Grimiest .] Full of grime; begrimed; dirty; foul.
Usage examples of grimy.
On the latter, oddly enough, were still his grimy boots, blackening the white sheets on which they rested.
Wearing the slave breechclout of grimy gray we would still attract attention by reason of our weapons, so I had elected to retain my scarlet breechclout and scarlet cape, and Gloag had done likewise.
Where now, as he turns away, hiding the warm loaf under his grimy suit, the sunlight off the water brightens his face and his identity fills itself in: the aquiline nose, the hawk-like expression, the softness appearing in the brown eyes.
Each minute flower has four green petals and brownish seed organs, which cause the knob of flowers to have a rather grimy look, and a calyx which is very hard and stout, having two scales and four sepals.
Alone in his cell, he felt the old walls closing in, harder and grimier and colder, until his breath was gone.
Near the industrial part of town the homes were drabber, the streets grimier, the bars grubbier, the nightlife darker.
Heddon sketched a bow, at the same time tapping his grimy forehead with the side of an even grimier fist.
The house tops over which I skimmed became dingier, grimier and more decrepit.
He scraped away the ashes and revealed the cakes, now a bit crisper than they had been, and a bit grimier, but still edible.
She was tucking a grimy blouse into the waistband of her even grimier skirt.
The whole plant had been white once, but age and weather had taken its toll, and it was now a grimier gray than the sea gulls that continually circled and squawked around the cliffs.
She was sticky from spilled juice, she felt grimier than she had been since childhood.
Moscow River, and across it to another, grimier section of the vast city.
Pushing her hair off a grimy forehead with a grimier hand, she listened to his directions, staring vacantly, as is the manner of her kind, but understanding them, nevertheless, and not incapable of remembering their purport: they were short and intelligible enough.
No corner of the flat could hold it without seeming even grimier than before.