dirty and grubby
grubby hands
grubby clothes
grubby old work clothes.
the grubby face of a young boy.
he was heavy, grubby, and vaguely disreputable.
has a grubby way of treating others.
officials getting their hands grubby with filthy lucre .
businesses who don't want to get their hands grubby with all the technical gubbins.
The boys in their grubby navy bow ties and blue uniforms were indistinguishably horrid—nose-pickers, thumbsuckers, snorers, neer-do-wells, farters, burpers, the unwashed and unclean.
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