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Adjective
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The tables were sparkly red Formica, the chairs grimy and mismatched.—
Ottessa Moshfegh,
New Yorker,
30 June 2025 -
While that may be a badge of honor on the mound, that grimy peak may not look as good in the bleachers.—
Maryal Miller Carter,
USA Today,
14 June 2025
Adjective
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The room was filthy, prescription bottles around the room, one bed with no sheets.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
27 June 2025
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Photograph: Chris Null As anyone who’s ever stuck a cotton swab in there knows, your ear canal is a filthy, disgusting place.—
Christopher Null,
Wired News,
22 June 2025
Adjective
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Did a packing cube come into contact with unclean surfaces, such as dirty hotel room floors or shared bathrooms?—
Jolie Kerr,
Better Homes & Gardens,
15 June 2025
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But so long as the cultural narrative persists around vaginas being unclean or smelly, companies will continue to create items deemed to cleanse them.—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
3 June 2025
Adjective
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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
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But maybe that’s the ultimate victory: By the end, Cruise and McQuarrie manage to wrestle back their magnum opus from the grubby little cyberpaws of the Lord of Lies.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
14 May 2025
Adjective
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Water was often impure, too, especially with the war going on.—
Doug Ross,
Chicago Tribune,
10 June 2025
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This anti-establishment mindset translates to denim with dirty shades of indigo, impure neutrals and green casts, accented with pops of fiery red and pale yellow.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
30 May 2025
Adjective
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As the 2000s set in, the artist’s style took on a more grungy approach.—
Robyn Mowatt,
Essence,
27 June 2025
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The style can truly be paired with all hemline lengths, as well as ultra-feminine and grungy ‘fits both.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
25 June 2025
Adjective
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Jon, meanwhile, holes up in his squalid quarters surrounded by takeout containers and dirty clothes while hooked onto a cheap-looking VR game that hardly inspires the wonderment in us it’s supposed to in him.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
14 Feb. 2025
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With most of Gaza’s population driven into massive, squalid tent camps, Palestinians are desperate to get back to their homes, even though many were destroyed or heavily damaged by Israel’s attacks.—
Samy Magdy,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The wider sweeps are stressing the capacity of the detention system, where detainees have reported moldy food, dirty towels and no changes of clothes for more than a week at a time.—
Rachel Uranga,
Los Angeles Times,
25 June 2025
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Finally, never reuse dirty water as toddlers and pets might accidentally swallow it.—
Lauren Bengtson,
Better Homes & Gardens,
25 June 2025
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