Adjective
grubby (comparative grubbier, superlative grubbiest)
- Dirty, unwashed, unclean.
- Synonyms: grimy; see also Thesaurus:unclean
He's a grubby little boy, always playing around by the stream.
- (figurative) Disreputable, sordid.
2020 December 19, Ross Douthat, “When You Can’t Just ‘Trust the Science’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:I have in mind, in particular, the claim that has echoed through the liberal side of coronavirus-era debates — that the key to sound leadership in a pandemic is just to follow the science, to trust science and scientists, to do what experts suggest instead of letting mere grubby politics determine your response.
- Having grubs in it.
1944, National Live Stock Loss Prevention Board, Report, page 694:The United States Department of Agriculture states that grubs cost the livestock industry from $50,000,000 to $100,000,000 each year. The average devaluation on grubby cattle is from 25 cents to one dollar per cwt.
Translations
dirty
- Bulgarian: мърляв (bg) (mǎrljav), оцапан (bg) (ocapan)
- Dutch: groezelig (nl), smerig (nl), vuil (nl)
- Estonian: kasimatu
- Finnish: likainen (fi), sottainen (fi)
- French: crasseux (fr)
- Galician: cotrento, cotroso, cotrañento, goldrento (gl) m, lordenio (gl) m, carrañento (gl) m, emporcallado (gl) m
- German: schmutzig (de), schmuddelig (de)
- Italian: sudicio (it)
- Macedonian: ва́лкан (válkan), не́чист (néčist)
- Norman: malpropre m or f
- Polish: umorusany, brudny (pl)
- Portuguese: encardido (pt) m
- Russian: гря́зный (ru) (grjáznyj), (sloppy) неря́шливый (ru) (nerjášlivyj)
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