grungy

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Building on top of the GMail platform obviates the need to actually do any of the grungy mail stuff.

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thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen"

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adjective

thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen"

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adjective

thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen"

See also: begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby, raunchy

Example sentences

Building on top of the GMail platform obviates the need to actually do any of the grungy mail stuff.

Besides, the grungy midtown location, perfect for startups, was starting to get us down after five years.

Vienna certainly is beautiful in parts, grungy in others.

Or, I can try to grovel around in their grungy database and try to make sense of it and "export" things, but I'm sure that will be even worse.

Which is their right, but makes this whole thing a lot less about the Morality of Artistic Funding and a lot more just grungy money grubbing.

Doing the grungy work of getting a big project ship-ready doesn't automatically mean there's a death march underway.

We had a shower in it and showered everyday, we cleaned the inside regularly but still you always felt a bit grungy compared to living in a house/apartment.

I have seen tech companies move into a grungy area, which they get a discount on taxes and then go on thinking they are going to help the area, but instead push the problem elsewhere.

I started seeing improvement around 2011/2012, when promo committees started valuing grungy maintenance & refactoring tasks more.

And if you think working on a mid-priority, grungy project is bad, imagine what it's like to manage that project and have to deal with people quitting, transferring, or getting fired at a rate of 2-3/year.

> Frozen desert sellers - I hate to bring out the '...but think of the children argument,' but seriously, do you know if the grungy dude in the van selling ice-cream to your kids knows how to handle food safely?