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What does grimy mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word grimy? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Stained or covered with grime.
  2. (music) From the urban musical genre called grime.
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A jagged tear split his shirt up one side, the faded red fabric parting to reveal the grimy ladder of his ribs.
But whereas they were once crisp, motes of dust and household lint had now settled leaving the surface grimy.
She bent slightly to look under his grimy hat to check if he was joshing with her.
According to Mr. Sasi, paintings covered in grimy varnish can sometimes be revived through cleaning and revarnishing alone.
Their streets were grimy and gritty, awash in alcohol and laced with drugs.
Dull, grimy and rusted, the traffic signals of Chennai don't get even wiped at periodic intervals!

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