grubby

[US]/'grʌbɪ/
[UK]/'ɡrʌbi/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. sujo; infestado com sujeira ou imundície; mesquinho; pequeno em tamanho.
Word Forms
Comparativogrubbier
Passado simplesgrubbied
Superlativogrubbiest

Phrases & Collocations

dirty and grubby

sujo e imundo

grubby hands

mãos imundas

grubby clothes

roupas imundas

Example Sentences

grubby old work clothes.

roupas de trabalho velhas e sujas.

the grubby face of a young boy.

o rosto sujo de um menino.

he was heavy, grubby, and vaguely disreputable.

ele era pesado, sujo e vagamente de má reputação.

has a grubby way of treating others.

tem uma maneira suja de tratar os outros.

officials getting their hands grubby with filthy lucre .

oficiais ficando sujos com dinheiro sujo.

businesses who don't want to get their hands grubby with all the technical gubbins.

empresas que não querem sujar as mãos com todos os aspectos técnicos.

The boys in their grubby navy bow ties and blue uniforms were indistinguishably horrid—nose-pickers, thumbsuckers, snorers, neer-do-wells, farters, burpers, the unwashed and unclean.

Os meninos, com suas gravatas borboleta azul-marinho sujas e uniformes azuis, eram horrivelmente indistinguíveis - catadores de nariz, chupadores de polegar, roncadores, aproveitadores, arrotadores, fedorentos, sujos e imundos.

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