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Adjective
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The rubber seal on your dishwasher, refrigerator, or washing machine can get pretty grimy.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
18 Aug. 2025 -
Scenes stretch on too long, Lynette’s misbegotten plans play out in predictable fashion, and even a handful of genuinely thrilling action sequences (like Lynette’s escape from that grimy garage, told through an eye-popping oner) can’t quite keep things ticking along.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
14 Aug. 2025
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Away from a filthy Superdome and Convention Center where they had been holed up for days.—
Suzette Hackney,
USA Today,
5 Sep. 2025
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Alexander pulled out a baby-blue melodica to lay down a filthy ska rhythm for his band.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Sep. 2025
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Dip a microfiber cloth in the solution and saturate the stained area.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
6 Sep. 2025
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Hold the stained fabric taut and let the water flow from the back of the shirt to the front, allowing the water to push the stain away from the fabric rather than through it.—
Jolie Kerr,
Better Homes & Gardens,
4 Sep. 2025
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The restaurant’s meat slicer was unclean with meat residue on the blade and blade housing.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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However, like everything else at this stand, these curds have a slight bitter astringency that may result from unclean frying oil.—
Jared Kaufman,
Twin Cities,
26 Aug. 2025
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Even with all its grubby realism, Possession celebrates a life in books in a way that feels aspirational.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Aug. 2025
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Now, the world is essentially the puppet of the A.I. big bad known as The Entity, which has gotten its grubby digital claws into the global psyche as well as most of the world’s nuclear arsenals.—
Jami Ganz,
New York Daily News,
23 May 2025
Adjective
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This method combines impure raw silicon with pure aluminum, lowering the melting temperature compared to conventional polysilicon production.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Aug. 2025
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Water was often impure, too, especially with the war going on.—
Doug Ross,
Chicago Tribune,
10 June 2025
Adjective
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Health inspectors found two visibly soiled wiping cloths on the preparation table surface.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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But even with the most enthusiastic upcycling, so much fast fashion cannot be repurposed—discolored or torn polyester, or soiled underwear.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
6 Aug. 2025
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The new crime comedy Caught Stealing unfolds in the year 1998, traveling across a distinctly grungy New York City—all dingy subway platforms and drab Chinatown apartments.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
29 Aug. 2025
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The name was a play on the popular Lollapalooza music festival and perfectly captured the grungy, alternative, and chaotic culture of the ECW brand.—
Andrew Ravens,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Aug. 2025
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“Gunky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gunky. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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