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grimy
(redirected from grimier)

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grim·y  (grm)
adj. grim·i·er, grim·i·est
Covered or smudged with grime. See Synonyms at dirty.
grimi·ly adv.
grimi·ness n.
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Adj.1.grimy - thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen"
begrimed, dingy, grungy, grubby, raunchy
dirty, soiled, unclean - soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime; "dirty unswept sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty slums"; "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his dirty feet on the clean sheet"; "wore an unclean shirt"; "mining is a dirty job"; "Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves"
grimy
adjective dirty, polluted, filthy, soiled, foul, grubby, sooty, unclean, grotty (slang), smutty, scuzzy (slang), begrimed, skanky (slang) a grimy industrial city
Translations
grimy [ˈgraɪmɪ] ADJ (grimier (compar) (grimiest (superl))) → mugriento, sucio
grimy [ˈgraɪmi] adj [house, town] → sale; [hands] → crasseux/euse
grimy
adj → schmutzig, dreckig; clothes also → verdreckt; (= greasy) → schmierig; (= blackened with soot) city, building → verrußt
grimy [ˈgraɪmɪ] adj → sudicio/a, sporco/a
grimy [ˈgraɪmɪ] adj → sudicio/a, sporco/a


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