Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Very unpleasant; miserable.
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- adjective slang, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand
unpleasant ,dirty ,slovenly oroffensive
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- adjective very unpleasant or offensive
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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MPs attack £5bn government bill for 'grotty' new housing risks repeating the mistakes of the postwar boom by wasting hundreds of millions of pounds on funding "grotty" new homes, say MPs.
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MPs attack £5bn government bill for 'grotty' new housing
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MPs attack £5bn government bill for 'grotty' new housing risks repeating the mistakes of the postwar boom by wasting hundreds of millions of pounds on Cape Town.
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MPs attack £5bn government bill for 'grotty' new housing
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Shadow Commons leader Alan Duncan and Sir Patrick Cormack urged the Government to ban the "grotty" and "squalid" row of tents from outside the Palace of Westminster.
Bloggerheads 2009
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It's not Roy Thomson Hall," she said in Whistler on Wednesday, the day the festival announced plans that will see the tired, "grotty" 1980s theatre which is located inside the conference centre transformed into a state-of-the-art, 300-seat, digital theatre with new screen, projector, acoustics, lobby, exterior - and plush seats.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed MARSHA LEDERMAN 2010
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It's not Roy Thomson Hall," she said in Whistler on Wednesday, the day the festival announced plans that will see the tired, "grotty" 1980s theatre which is located inside the conference centre transformed into a state-of-the-art, 300-seat, digital theatre with new screen, projector, acoustics, lobby, exterior - and plush seats.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed MARSHA LEDERMAN 2010
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I think that it came after Lord of Light (I can check later), but I have this grotty old paperback copy of a book called "Changeling".
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For our second year we left the grot-baggy house and took up a less grotty house with just two rooms and had our own private space.
Memories of that first week at university « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2009
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David Mitchell: 'I should probably be thinking seriously now about not living in a grotty flat on my own'
Peep Show's David Mitchell joins Charlie Brooker to grill politicians in new live show 2011
sonofgroucho commented on the word grotty
Short for "grotesque", I believe.
January 7, 2007