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  • adjective comparative form of grotty: more grotty

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Examples

  • He had little time for the grottier end of journalism, even though he could have made more money there.

    Conrad Black Gets Out Of Jail 2010

  • He had little time for the grottier end of journalism, even though he could have made more money there.

    Conrad Black Gets Out Of Jail 2010

  • We meet in the Banana Leaf, an Indian restaurant at the grottier end of Tooting in south London: Maya chose it because it's round the corner from her mum, Kala.

    MIA: 'I'm here for the people' 2010

  • This is considerably less than the next-nearest priced brand, predictably named ‘Plutocrat’ in line with the inverse rule that the grottier a brand of cigarettes are, the more plush they sound.

    Tesco To Launch “No Frills” Cigarettes Push Jelly 2009

  • This is considerably less than the next-nearest priced brand, predictably named ‘Plutocrat’ in line with the inverse rule that the grottier a brand of cigarettes are, the more plush they sound.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Push Jelly 2009

  • If anything, Tooting Broadway seems less mixed than when I lived in one of its grottier estates ten years ago.

    Citizen Cameron 2007

  • If anything, Tooting Broadway seems less mixed than when I lived in one of its grottier estates ten years ago.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2007

  • It couldn't have been a greater contrast: the comrades of the Communist Party of Britain were meeting on a wet Wednesday night in one of the grottier enclaves of east London, while in an auction room in Manhattan the world's leading art dealers were on a spending spree which broke world records.

    Archive 2006-11-01 The Nag 2006

  • It couldn't have been a greater contrast: the comrades of the Communist Party of Britain were meeting on a wet Wednesday night in one of the grottier enclaves of east London, while in an auction room in Manhattan the world's leading art dealers were on a spending spree which broke world records.

    Communist Party chair nets £20m in painting sale The Nag 2006

  • Sinkiang lies north of the Himalayas, north of Tibet, and borders on Afghanistan and some of the grottier bits of the Soviet Union.

    A Rude Awakening Aldiss, Brian 1978

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