Meaning

4 senses
  1. Stained or covered with grime.

    schmuddelig

  2. From the urban musical genre called grime.

  3. (slang)Morally corrupt, malicious, vile, or selfish; base or dirty; rotten.

    When I was 18 I was grimy af. I wouldn't share my food with you even if you were starving and about to die.

  4. (slang)Of a beat or song, darkly atmospheric; having affinities with the style of the East Coast hip hop of the 90s, especially that of New York.

More definitions
  • thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot

Examples

3 sentences
  1. Keep your grimy hands off me.

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  2. The forecourt looked grimy, like it hadn't been cleaned in days.

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  3. A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings.

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Translations

2 languages
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By meaning 1
covered with grime:

Forms

grimier, grimiest
Comparativegrimier Lesson
Superlativegrimiest Lesson

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words
Derivedgrimily

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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