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- adjective
comparative form ofgrubby : moregrubby
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Examples
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The 'Closer' beauty thinks she has only been so successful because of her looks, but has admitted she and her actress friends are "grubbier" than most women and often look "ugly" when they wake up wearing last night's hairstyle and make-up. disgusting after showbiz parties.
Femalefirst.co.uk - Celebrity Gossip + Lifestyle Magazine 2010
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The 'Closer' beauty thinks she has only been so successful because of her looks, but has admitted she and her actress friends are "grubbier" than most women and often look "ugly" when they wake up wearing last night's hairstyle and make-up. disgusting after showbiz parties.
Femalefirst.co.uk - Celebrity Gossip + Lifestyle Magazine 2010
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These "grubbier" creations have spanned over ten years worth of albums and countless compilations.
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These "grubbier" creations have spanned over ten years worth of albums and countless compilations.
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The 'Closer' beauty thinks she has only been so successful because of her looks, but has admitted she and her actress friends are "grubbier" than most women and often look "ugly" when they wake up wearing last night's hairstyle and make-up. disgusting after showbiz parties.
Femalefirst.co.uk - Celebrity Gossip + Lifestyle Magazine 2010
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Ms. Dixon quickly discovered that the reality of running a gourmet restaurant is a lot grubbier than she had imagined.
Dreams Come True. Or Not. Rob Johnson 2011
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What's mostly happened since – the contemporary end of this scandal – is News International's still grubbier efforts at a cover-up.
Don't punish innocent papers: it's the rogues that need to be regulated 2011
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Predictable, vacuous and with a tongue in as many cheeks as possible, Desperate Scousewives is a show that leaves you feeling just that bit grubbier for having guiltily enjoyed it.
TV review: Desperate Scousewives; The British Woman on Death Row 2011
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Intermittently gripping thriller illuminating one of our planet's grubbier secrets: the ongoing slave trade, in the form of domestic help forcibly recruited from Africa's more troubled regions and bundled into Britain by human traffickers (the closing credits suggest that 5,000 slaves may be held in London alone).
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Instead he was caught between his idealistic notion of legions of ethically pure public servants and the grubbier reality of human nature and life in Washington.
THE PROMISE JONATHAN ALTER 2010
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