grungier; grungiest
1
: shabby or dirty in character or condition
2
: characteristic of grunge music or fashion
Examples of grungy in a Sentence
After working in the garden all day, I felt sweaty and grungy.
a grungy pair of jeans
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Outsiders like Devon, on the other hand, are marked by their grungy combat boots, tattoos, and heavy eyeliner.
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Elise Taylor, Vogue, 23 May 2025
There was this beautiful, really fun, cheap, grungy rehearsal studio in Culver City called Exposition Studios.
—Michelle Woo, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2025
Rothman shepherded Teitelbaum’s rebrand, helping to realign her sound in a way that more authentically reflected her taste — retaining the dark tint of her Baum output, but grounding it in grungy live instruments instead of synths.
—Olivia Horn, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
No, not grungy, but just bass-heavy and 808, and drums and just mad, hard percussions.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2025
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Elise Taylor, Vogue, 23 May 2025
There was this beautiful, really fun, cheap, grungy rehearsal studio in Culver City called Exposition Studios.
—Michelle Woo, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2025
Rothman shepherded Teitelbaum’s rebrand, helping to realign her sound in a way that more authentically reflected her taste — retaining the dark tint of her Baum output, but grounding it in grungy live instruments instead of synths.
—Olivia Horn, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
No, not grungy, but just bass-heavy and 808, and drums and just mad, hard percussions.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for grungy
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“Grungy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grungy. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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