Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective In a dirty, rundown, or inferior condition.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective thickily covered with ingrained dirt or soot.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Dirty ;shabby ; indisrepair .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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After many lazy years working in grungy shorts and torn ganji, we had an offer we could not refuse.
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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(link) Sounds like those were quite a bit fancier than the ones you find in grungy bar restrooms (which I figure were always done to the height of whatever guy cut the hole).
ceciliatan: People Are Strange When You’re A Stranger ceciliatan 2010
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More accurately described as a grungy alleyway, it is a rare piece of not-yet-gentrified property in Manhattan, and it's adjacent to some luxury apartment buildings on First Street.
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Nancy lives in this perfect world where everything's from Shabby Chic and looks really beautiful and I grew up in this kind of grungy Venice world with my parents and there was never a lot of money thrown around.
Brad Balfour: Exclusive: Zoe Kazan's Acting "Explodes" with "A Behanding" 2010
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I went there once and I like kind of grungy areas but I am sorry that was too grungy and far from the city.
"If we went back to the obesity rates that existed in 1980, that would save the Medicare system a trillion dollars." Ann Althouse 2007
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Even failiure has some kind of grungy humour to it when you look at it the right way, though.
I Have Mosh Pit Fetish justnick 2002
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Church has finally tired of the innocent look, and is trying out a new 'grungy' appearance.
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The lighter locks are a big change from Kristen's usual look and she recently admitted she is even more "grungy" in real life than her public persona.
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They were less "grungy" as Nirvana which is why they weren't breakthrough like Nirvana was. nirvana had an eccentric drug addicted mediocre songwriter to bring them in the spot light.
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If you've ever been to Albuquerque, you know that it's got a kind of grungy, dusty, wind-borne discarded-newspaper vibe (far removed from its glitsy upstream Santa Fe neighbor), and director Christine Jeffs has left this slightly untidy appearance intact on the screen.
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