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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
grotty
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Either that, or like amateur actors of no great talent taking part in some grotty costume play.
▪ It was a grotty kettle, choked with lime on the inside and all its shine gone on the outside.
▪ People who live near a corner where another so-and-so has abandoned a grotty sofa bed.
▪ They are light, easy to set up and transport and they can cover a multitude of grotty walls.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
grotty

slang shortening of grotesque, it had a brief vogue 1964 as part of the argot popularized by The Beatles in "A Hard Day's Night." It unconsciously echoes Middle English groti "muddy, slimy," from Old English grotig "earthy," from grot "particle."

Wiktionary
grotty

a. (context slang British Canada Australia NZ English) unpleasant, dirty, slovenly or offensive

WordNet
grotty

  1. adj. very unpleasant or offensive ; "a grotty little play"

  2. [also: grottiest, grottier]

Usage examples of "grotty".

Later she married this Shaw chappie and went to live on some grotty little island in the western ocean.

One of the grotty traders on the Quallheim, little more than a bodged-together raft.

Combined with the jog home from the beach, this activity left her grottier than young Patti Smith's armpits.

Sinkiang lies north of the Himalayas, north of Tibet, and borders on Afghanistan and some of the grottier bits of the Soviet Union.