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What does grimy mean?

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Adjective
  1. Stained or covered with grime.
  2. (music) From the urban musical genre called grime.
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They had docked near the edge of the town and made their way down the winding, grimy streets.
But whereas they were once crisp, motes of dust and household lint had now settled leaving the surface grimy.
The other location was York Street, a grimy thoroughfare running between Argyle Street and the river.
A man, wearing tatty clothes and an eye patch over his left eye, held out a grimy hand.
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.

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