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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
grimy
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
window
▪ He could see some one moving beyond the grimy window of the office.
▪ Then the townhouses give way to dowdy apartment complexes with grimy windows facing the street.
▪ Two doors down had grimy windows and grimier curtains, and a light shining from the kitchen.
▪ She slept unexpectedly soundly, and when she next opened her eyes, daylight was filtering in through the rather grimy window.
▪ Through the grimy window of the boathouse a night-light old-mastered Franky's sleeping face.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ grimy factories
▪ Chris was in a grimy apron, sweeping up.
▪ It was difficult to see through the grimy windows of the cafe.
▪ The whole town was grimy from smoke and coal-dust.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A pile of grimy bed-linen lies in what was once a ward.
▪ Each upper surface is further highlighted in a dusting of grimy soot.
▪ Her face was grimy, swollen from tears and smeared with food.
▪ New York City is bigger, but crowded and grimy.
▪ Then the townhouses give way to dowdy apartment complexes with grimy windows facing the street.
▪ Two doors down had grimy windows and grimier curtains, and a light shining from the kitchen.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grimy

Grimy \Grim"y\, a. [Compar. Grimier; superl. Grimiest.] Full of grime; begrimed; dirty; foul.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
grimy

1610s, from grime + -y (2). "App[arently] not in literary use during the 18th c." [OED]. Related: Griminess.

Wiktionary
grimy

a. Stained, or covered with grime.

WordNet
grimy

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]

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.