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scungy

a. (context Australia New Zealand US informal English) dirty, messy; sordid.

Usage examples of "scungy".

He was into drugs, the Asian, and I hoped Scungy could give me a lead or two.

He gestured at the pool, empty now of Scungy Grime but still surrounded by members of the PE team.

I want Scungy whatever-his-name-is scrubbed right out, not a trace of him.

Not really a happy day, though he doubted that Scungy Grime, even then, would have been upset by the assassination of a President.

On the other table, under a large green-domed lamp, lay Scungy Grime, naked, face down.

The two Catholics gave him a look that should have laid him out beside Scungy Grime.

The Dwarf looks big enough to have carted Scungy into your place under one arm.

Only when they got there did Malone realize that Sally Kissen had lived within half a dozen blocks of Scungy Grime.

Randwick Ds on Scungy and the Glebe fellers are doing the leg-work on Maddux.

No, Inspector, I never heard of any Leroy Lugos or Scungy Grime or Jimmy Maddux.

We give him one warning, when we dropped that little prick Grime in his pool, when we found out Scungy had been grassing for him.

Catholics gave him a look that should have laid him out beside Scungy Grime.

He looked neither scungy nor wealthy, which was the way he wanted to look.

Fourteenth Street, First Avenue, they were scungy but populated, jostling with drug traffic but not a lot of yoking.