Soiled vs Grimy - What's the difference?
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Stained, or covered with grime.
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(music) From the urban musical genre called grime.
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Soiled is a related term of grimy.
As adjectives the difference between soiled and grimy
is that soiled is dirty while grimy is stained, or covered with grime.As a verb soiled
is (soil).grimy
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Adjective
(er)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. }}