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grimy
What does grimy mean?
grimy (adjective): thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use grimy in a sentence?
- The forecourt looked grimy, like it hadn't been cleaned in days. (Tatoeba sentence #9125539 by Missy_Hissy, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce grimy?
/ˈɡɹaɪmi/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does grimy come from?
From grime + -y.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to grimy
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “grimy” mean?
openly distrustful and unwilling to confide
Not quite: that's what suspicious means.
based in scientific and industrial progress
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of fundamental importance; crucial, pivotal
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thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot
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