Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being gritty.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being gritty.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The characteristic or quality of being
gritty .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Just as significantly, the overwhelming superiority shown by the European players, in grittiness of attitude and quality of golf, suggested a psychological advantage that will be difficult to overcome.
Ryder Cup 2010: Colin Montgomerie feels the force is with Europe Lawrence Donegan at Celtic Manor 2010
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Giants) are our mirror image in grittiness, Percival said.
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And by grittiness I mean that Ron vomits up slugs at one point.
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A goal of "grittiness" without dedication to the mythology and the characters is celluloid masturbation and little else.
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Toss out any sunscreen that has expired or shows signs of separating, such as grittiness or changed appearance.
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Attack sequences need revision and a "grittiness" that is absent from the crap available in B-movie form on megalodons.
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Toss out any sunscreen that has expired or shows signs of separating, such as grittiness or changed appearance.
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Eschewing both traditional narrative and for better or worse, a point of view about the conflict it seeks to portray, the film approaches the kind of unaffected, unmediated portrayal of war and the men who live within its strange, parallel reality, but for all its "grittiness" and "realness" it can't help but indulge several Hollywood war movie cliches instantly recognizable to anyone with even a passing familiarity with the genre.
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Whilst not averse to 'grittiness' in fantasy, Jordan expressed concerns about the idea that everyone is flawed and grey takes away from the nature of evil, that real evil exists in the world and must be confronted.
The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan Adam Whitehead 2008
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Whilst not averse to 'grittiness' in fantasy, Jordan expressed concerns about the idea that everyone is flawed and grey takes away from the nature of evil, that real evil exists in the world and must be confronted.
Archive 2008-09-01 Adam Whitehead 2008
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