The meaning of Grimy

adjective

Blackened with ingrained dirt.

Usage examples:

They stand in front of begrimed windows

verb

Blacken with ingrained dirt.

Usage examples:

The smoke of industry begrimes buildings

adjective

Filthy or disgusting.

Usage examples:

The last of her coffee tasted bogging

verb

Be or become stuck in mud or wet ground.

Usage examples:

The car became bogged down on the beach road

phrasal verb

To prevent someone or something from moving on or progressing

Usage examples:

He's a big-picture leader and doesn't get bogged down in the details.

adjective

Of bad quality; worthless or offensive

Usage examples:

A cruddy book that's not worth reading

adjective

Covered or marked with an unclean substance.

Usage examples:

A tray of dirty cups and saucers

adverb

Used for emphasis.

Usage examples:

A dirty great slab of stone

verb

Make dirty.

Usage examples:

She didn't like him dirtying her nice clean towels

adjective

Covered with, full of, or resembling dust.

Usage examples:

Dusty old records

adjective

Covered in dust

Usage examples:

Piles of dusty books lay on the floor., we drove along the dusty road., dusty pink

adjective

Disgustingly dirty.

Usage examples:

A filthy hospital with no sanitation

adverb

To an extreme extent.

Usage examples:

He has become filthy rich

adjective

Extremely dirty

Usage examples:

Trucks poured out clouds of filthy, black smoke., there were beggars in the streets and filth every…

verb

Blacken or make dirty with grime.

Usage examples:

The windows were grimed like a coal miner's goggles

noun

Dirt ingrained on the surface of something.

Usage examples:

The windows were thick with grime

noun

A genre of popular music influenced by uk garage, typically characterized by a minimal, prominent rhythm, a very low-pitched bassline, and vocals by an mc.

adjective

Unpleasant and of poor quality.

Usage examples:

A grotty little hotel

adjective

Unpleasant or of bad quality

Usage examples:

A grotty little room

adjective

Covered with dirt; grimy.

Usage examples:

The grubby face of a young boy

adjective

Dirty or messy

Usage examples:

Grubby old clothes

adjective

Inferior; worthless.

Usage examples:

He wanted recruits for his manky bee-keeping society

adjective

Used to describe an object that is unpleasantly dirty, usually because it is old or has been used a lot

Usage examples:

A manky tissue, manky old carpets

adjective

Untidy or dirty.

Usage examples:

His messy hair

adjective

Dirty, unpleasant, or lacking order

Usage examples:

I hate a messy kitchen., he’s got a messy personal life.

adjective

Covered with dirt or filth.

Usage examples:

He took off his mucky boots

adjective

Dirty

Usage examples:

Get your mucky feet off that chair!, don't walk all over my clean floor in your mucky boots., a muc…

verb

Cover or fill (something) with mud.

Usage examples:

The linoleum flooring was muddied

adjective

Covered in or full of mud.

Usage examples:

They changed their muddy boots

verb

Past simple and past participle of muddy

Usage examples:

Industrial activity has muddied the river.

adjective

Covered in or full of mud.

Usage examples:

They changed their muddy boots

verb

Cover or fill (something) with mud.

Usage examples:

The linoleum flooring was muddied

adjective

Covered by or containing mud (= wet, sticky earth)

Usage examples:

Don't bring those muddy boots inside!, muddy water, the room has been painted in muddy browns and g…

adjective

Contaminated with harmful or poisonous substances.

Usage examples:

One of europe's most polluted rivers

verb

Contaminate (water, the air, etc.) with harmful or poisonous substances.

Usage examples:

The explosion polluted the town with dioxin

adjective

Affected by pollution

Usage examples:

The river in caracas is heavily polluted., new particles are formed in the polluted air of major ci…

verb

Coat or mark (something) messily or carelessly with a greasy or sticky substance.

Usage examples:

His face was smeared with dirt

noun

A mark or streak of a greasy or sticky substance.

Usage examples:

There was an oil smear on his jacket

noun

A sample of tissue or other material taken from part of the body, spread thinly on a microscope slide for examination, typically for medical diagnosis.

Usage examples:

The smears were stained for cryptosporidium

adjective

(of talk, writing, or pictures) obscene or lascivious.

Usage examples:

Smutty jokes

adjective

Related to or containing smut

Usage examples:

I was really embarrassed by his smutty jokes.

adjective

Dirty; stained.

Usage examples:

A soiled t-shirt

verb

Make dirty.

Usage examples:

He might soil his expensive suit

verb

Feed (cattle) on fresh-cut green fodder (originally for the purpose of purging them).

adjective

Covered with or coloured like soot.

Usage examples:

His olive skin and sooty eyes

verb

Mark or discolour with something that is not easily removed.

Usage examples:

Her clothing was stained with blood

adjective

Marked or discoloured with something that is not easily removed.

Usage examples:

A stained beer mat

adjective

(of a material or object) coloured by application of a penetrative dye or chemical.

Usage examples:

Stained timber floorboards

adjective

Not cleaned; dirty.

adjective

Messy or disgusting.

Usage examples:

Yucky green-grey slushy cabbage