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1
not clean
- clean off those grubby hands before you touch anything
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- chaotic,
- cluttered,
- confused,
- disarranged,
- disarrayed,
- disheveled
- (or dishevelled),
- disordered,
- jumbled,
- littered,
- messed,
- messy,
- muddled,
- mussed,
- mussy,
- rumpled,
- scruffy,
- sloppy,
- slovenly,
- unkempt,
- untidy
- collied
- [chiefly British dialect],
- crocked
- [dialect],
- fuliginous,
- sooty
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2
arousing or deserving of one's loathing and disgust
- that's a grubby reason to stop talking to a friend
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The first known use of grubby was in 1725
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