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Griminess

noun
1.
The state of being grimy.  Synonym: grubbiness.






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"Griminess" Quotes from Famous Books



... good indeed to breathe. The dull griminess of the village, so utterly dismal in the rain and fog of yesterday, had given place to something akin to cheerfulness. On the tops of the cliffs the scanty herbage, closely cropped by the goats, was very green, of the deep beautiful hue one only finds in lands drenched by frequent downpours. The ...
— Sweetapple Cove • George van Schaick

... scrub-rag in rigor mortis. Una was annoyed with herself for ever observing so unlovely an object, but in the moment of relaxation when she went to wash her hands she was unduly sensitive to that eternal rag, and to the griminess of the wash-room—the cracked and yellow-stained wash-bowl, the cold water that stung in winter, the roller-towel which she spun round and round in the effort to find a dry, clean, square space, till, in a spasm of revulsion, she would bolt out ...
— The Job - An American Novel • Sinclair Lewis



Words linked to "Griminess" :   uncleanness, grimy, grubbiness, dirtiness



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