Crossword-Solution: GRUBBY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Grubby | a. | Dirty; unclean. |
| Grubby | n. | Any species of Cottus; a sculpin. |
We have 16 clues for the answer “GRUBBY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Dirty, grimy | 1 answer |
| INFESTED with grubs | 1 answer |
| Smutched like a small boy. | 1 answer |
| scungy | 1 answer |
| small sculpin of the coast of New England | 1 answer |
| Besmeared | 2 answers |
| soily | 2 answers |
| Unhygienic | 7 answers |
| BLACK as soot | 30 answers |
| mucky | 30 answers |
| Tacky | 51 answers |
| dishevelled | 61 answers |
| Contemptible | 68 answers |
| Soiled | 72 answers |
| Squalid | 73 answers |
| DIRTY ___ | 86 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GRUBBY (5)
They followed the manufacturer into a grubby little room, upholstered in black American leather, glossy with the rubbing of many customers.
What chance was there of gathering them into a bow-windowed forty pound-a-year house with a grubby-faced maid at the door? What do you suppose I did? My boy, I took the governor’s old house, that was unlet--the very house that he kept up at five thousand a year.
Now we are led, protesting, up to a grubby urchin of five and are invited to watch him through twenty years of intimate minutiae.
She knew that the bond between them had been the grubby, physical one of childhood, and that they never would come together in the finer relation of the spirit, though she could not have put this new knowledge into words.
Now, however, that you have shattered the atmosphere I had created--of course, I think you're absolutely beautiful, and, if you'll wait a second, I'll get Pomfret's rug." "I don't know what you mean, but thanks all the same, and if Pomfret doesn't mind, this tree is rather grubby." I got the rug and spread it on the fallen trunk for her.
Quotes with GRUBBY (3)
One could always imagine that one's life, though smoldering parts, might be undamaged in the west." "We also serve who live with grace." "If there had been more time, or less, it all would have been easier. If its an hour one can say what one likes. If it's a year, one can be what one is like. A day is exactly the wrong lenght of time to be oneself in, don't you think?" "In the end I suppose we lay flowers on a grave because we cannot lay ourselves on it." "The dead were filt…
The tavern keeper, a wiry man with a sharp-nosed face, round, prominent ears and a receding hairline that combined to give him a rodentlike look, glanced at him, absentmindedly wiping a tankard with a grubby cloth. Will raised an eyebrow as he looked at it. He'd be willing to bet the cloth was transferring more dirt to the tankard then it was removing. "Drink?" the tavern keeper asked. He set the tankard down on the bar, as if in preparation for filling it with whatever the s…
One didn't understand, until one had seen a great many bodies, the unconscious effort that one must be making every minute simply to keep one's hands and face and clothes clean. The world's surfaces were so filthy that the living touched them only with the tips of their fingers and the soles of their shoes. How grubby it was to die, to give up making that effort.
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1953–2019).