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- adjective
comparative form ofgrotty : moregrotty
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Examples
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He had little time for the grottier end of journalism, even though he could have made more money there.
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He had little time for the grottier end of journalism, even though he could have made more money there.
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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.
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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
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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
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If anything, Tooting Broadway seems less mixed than when I lived in one of its grottier estates ten years ago.
Citizen Cameron 2007
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If anything, Tooting Broadway seems less mixed than when I lived in one of its grottier estates ten years ago.
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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
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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
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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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