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Adjective
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Some cultures have showered in the morning to purify the spirit before prayer, while others preferred the evening bath as an opportunity to socialize and clean their grimy bodies before bed.—
Matt Fuchs,
Time,
10 July 2025 -
Clean gas stovetop grates to prevent grease and build-up that can smell, burn, and look grimy over time.—
Daley Quinn,
Southern Living,
1 July 2025
Adjective
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These words are so filthy, even 40 years later, that Tribune editors will only allow an edited version to be included here.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
11 July 2025
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The girl is so filthy that just one look at her gets across the idea that this lifestyle is repellent.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
10 July 2025
Adjective
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Uncut girls are often seen as unclean and unreligious among the citizens and diasporas of the African and Asian countries that practice cutting.—
Nariman El-Mofty Nariman El-Mofty,
New York Times,
2 June 2025
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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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Meanwhile, in the grubby streets of Buffalo (hey, what did Buffalo do to deserve this!), Simone’s older sister Devon is getting home one morning after her second DUI.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
22 May 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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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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Stalter and Sharpe make a dynamic pair, surrounded by famous guest stars ranging from Rita Wilson to Naomi Watts to Dunham herself and set against a grungy London aesthetic.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
11 July 2025
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More toward the rowdy end are the closet-sized bars of Shinjuku’s Golden Gai, a warren of grungy alleys home to snug drinking holes with obscure themes and idiosyncratic bartender-owners.—
Jessica Kozuka,
Travel + Leisure,
6 July 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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Environmentalists and labor rights activists have complained that China's graphite mining and production is dirty and dangerous.—
Rick Barrett,
jsonline.com,
7 July 2025
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Employees get their hands dirty in the intro course by learning how to prompt, then move to more advanced courses on building custom GPTs and agents.—
Melissa Daimler,
Forbes.com,
7 July 2025
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“Gunky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gunky. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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