grimier; grimiest
griminess
noun
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this mirror is so grimy you can barely see your reflection in it
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Together, the grimy pair start riding the rails across the country, watching movies starring Frank’s favorite actor, Ronnie Reed (Jake Gyllenhaal), and somehow sparking a feminist plot to overthrow the kinds of mean gangsters who killed Ida in the first place.
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David Sims, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2026
One filled with phone booths and newsstands and Gray’s Papaya on practically every grimy street corner — a New York where getting your bicycle ripped off was almost as much a rite of passage as stomping on your first cockroach.
—Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 5 Mar. 2026
Even if someone is insanely lucky and doesn’t manage to let an item touch the plastic, finger prints show up in a second making the entire thing look grimy.
—Joel Feder, The Drive, 5 Mar. 2026
The wartime setting may skew it towards an older audience, tapping into the boys’ own adventure comics of the ’50s and ’60s with titles like The Victor and The Hotspur, and despite the grimy industrial setting, there are even exotic shades of Sergio Leone’s spaghetti Westerns in its final showdown.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 5 Mar. 2026
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David Sims, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2026
One filled with phone booths and newsstands and Gray’s Papaya on practically every grimy street corner — a New York where getting your bicycle ripped off was almost as much a rite of passage as stomping on your first cockroach.
—Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 5 Mar. 2026
Even if someone is insanely lucky and doesn’t manage to let an item touch the plastic, finger prints show up in a second making the entire thing look grimy.
—Joel Feder, The Drive, 5 Mar. 2026
The wartime setting may skew it towards an older audience, tapping into the boys’ own adventure comics of the ’50s and ’60s with titles like The Victor and The Hotspur, and despite the grimy industrial setting, there are even exotic shades of Sergio Leone’s spaghetti Westerns in its final showdown.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 5 Mar. 2026
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“Grimy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grimy. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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