Adjective

(er)

Stained, or covered with grime.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps,

(music) From the urban musical genre called grime.

* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=November 27, work=BBC

, title= Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Child has 'best guitar riff' , passage=Riffs from older songs seem to be more popular, as only two from the past decade made it into the top 20. They were Muse's Plug In Baby, at 11, and The White Stripes' grimy Seven Nation Army at 15. }}

Adjective

(en adjective)

Dirty or squalid.

Morally degrading.

* 1912 ,

He rode slowly home along the deserted road, watching the stars come out in the clear violet sky.They flashed softly into the limpid heavens, like jewels let fall into clear water. They were a reproach, he felt, to a sordid world.

Grasping.