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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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Their streets were grimy and gritty, awash in alcohol and laced with drugs.
Tucked in a bazaar along a grimy street, he keeps a shop about the size of a toolshed.
They had docked near the edge of the town and made their way down the winding, grimy streets.
There is Pittsburgh, of grimy repute, recently named the most livable U.S. city.
But whereas they were once crisp, motes of dust and household lint had now settled leaving the surface grimy.
A jagged tear split his shirt up one side, the faded red fabric parting to reveal the grimy ladder of his ribs.

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