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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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But whereas they were once crisp, motes of dust and household lint had now settled leaving the surface grimy.
Their streets were grimy and gritty, awash in alcohol and laced with drugs.
The cramped room was dark and gloomy, a faint stream of gentle light streaming through the grimy window.
According to Mr. Sasi, paintings covered in grimy varnish can sometimes be revived through cleaning and revarnishing alone.
Tucked in a bazaar along a grimy street, he keeps a shop about the size of a toolshed.
There is Pittsburgh, of grimy repute, recently named the most livable U.S. city.

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