Crossword-Solution: GRIMY 5 letters, 71 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
Grimy superl. Full of grime; begrimed; dirty; foul.

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GRIMY anagram GYMIR

We have 71 clues for the answer “GRIMY”

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Hard to get clean 1 answer
Dingy and grubby 1 answer
Covered in schmutz 1 answer
Dirt-encrusted 1 answer
Covered in filth 1 answer
Covered in dirt 1 answer
Caked with crud 1 answer
Begging for a power-wash, maybe 1 answer
Filth-covered 1 answer
Hard to Clean 1 answer
In need of a scrubbing 1 answer
In need of deep cleaning 1 answer
In need of soap 1 answer
Like Poppins, at times 1 answer
Like a grease monkey, perhaps 1 answer
Like coal miners' clothes 1 answer
Mean and unpleasant 1 answer
Needing scouring 1 answer
Well-soiled 1 answer
to clean Hard 1 answer
In need of scrubbing 2 answers
Needing a good scrubbing 2 answers
Very dirty 2 answers
In need of a good scrubbing 2 answers
Covered with soot, e.g. 2 answers
Covered with soot 2 answers
Covered in soot 2 answers
Full of dirt 2 answers
Needing washing 3 answers
Covered with dirt 3 answers
Needing a scrubbing 3 answers
In need of cleaning 4 answers
DINGY LINEN 10 answers
Not "clean" 10 answers
COVERED WITH OR AS IF WITH SOOT 10 answers
CLEAN WITH HARD RUBBING 10 answers
sooty 11 answers
grubby 16 answers
unwashed 17 answers
smudged 20 answers
BEMIRED 22 answers
seepy 23 answers
Oozy 23 answers
splashy 24 answers
swampy 24 answers
slushy 24 answers
miry 24 answers
dusty 24 answers
sludgy 27 answers
fusty 27 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REATE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GRIMY (5)

There was not a porthole on the grimy glass of which you might not have written with your finger “Dirty pig”; and she had already written it on several.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
The Jew, with characteristic patience, stood humbly on one side, leaning on a thick knotted staff, his greasy, broad-brimmed hat casting a deep shadow over his grimy face, waiting for the noble Excellency to deign to put some questions to him.
The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993
Steam poured from subway grates and manhole covers as rush hour pedestrians huddled from the cold winds, tromping through the grimy snow on the streets and sidewalks.
Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993
The very sight of him with one grimy thumb buried deep in the lukewarm stew, that seemed, from the frequency of its repetition, to constitute the pride of his culinary art, was sufficient to take away the girl’s appetite.
The Beasts of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
And there, at the door of a grimy, old building in the slums of London, the searchers came to a blank wall—baffled.
The Son of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

Quotes with GRIMY (3)

She held up her calloused, grimy fingers. Leo couldn't help thinking there was nothing hotter than a girl who didn't mind getting her hands dirty. But of course, that was just a general comment. Didn't apply to Calypso. Obviously.
Rick Riordan The House of Hades
Our assholes will be clean but we must never wash our hands. Our immune systems will be strengthened by our being dirty. Not filthy. Just mildly grimy. Filthy fingernails have always been a favorite fashion accessory of mine. Especially when you place your hands in the prayer positions. Matter of fact, I urge all my followers to forgo nail polish permanently and replace it with expertly applied soot. The nonexistent gods above will ignore our prayers better this way.
John Waters Role Models
What remains to us here, behind the Yser, is not much more than a strip of land almost impossible to defend; a few rain-soaked trenches around razed villages; roads blown to smithereens, unusable by any vehicle; a creaky old horse cart we haul around ourselves, loaded with crates of damp ammunition that are constantly on the verge of sliding into a canal, forcing us to slog like madmen for every ten yards of progress as we stifle our warning cries; the snarling officers in th…
Stefan Hertmans War and Turpentine
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Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 36 times in crossword archives (1977–2024).