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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun grubby has 1 sense

• grubby(n = noun.animal) myxocephalus aenaeus - small sculpin of the coast of New England; Array
is a kind of sculpin
is a member of genus myxocephalus, myxocephalus

Adjective grubby has 2 senses

• grubby(a = adj.pert) Array - infested with grubs; Array
Derived form noun grub₂

• grubby(s = adj.all) begrimed, dingy, grimy, grungy, raunchy - thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen"
Derived form noun grubbiness₁

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THESAURUS

grubby

beat-up, bedraggled, beset, black, blowzy, careless, chintzy, dilapidated, dingy, dirty, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, dusty, filthy, foul, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, grimy, grungy, impure, in rags, infested, informal, loose, lousy, lumpen, messy, miry, muddy, mussy, nasty, negligent, pedicular, pediculous, plagued, poky, ragged, raggedy, ratty, ravaged, ruinous, scraggly, scruffy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, slack, slatternly, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, smirchy, smoky, smudgy, smutchy, smutty, snuffy, soily, sooty, sordid, squalid, tacky, tattered, teeming, unclean, uncleanly, unkempt, unneat, unsightly, untidy, wormy

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