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grubbily
adverb
uk /ˈɡrʌb.əl.i/ us /ˈɡrʌb.əl.i/
grubbilyadverb (DIRTY)
in a way that is dirty or that shows you do not care about being clean:
The coins are covered with fingerprints from all the people who have grubbily handled them over the years.
If I had known we were having company, I wouldn't have dressed so grubbily.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Dirty & untidy
all over the placeidiom
Augean
besmeared
bespattered
bloodied
look like something the cat brought/dragged inidiom
manky
messily
messy
mucky
sluttish
sluttishly
soiled
sordid
sordidly
unsterilized
untidily
untidy
untrimmed
unwashed
grubbilyadverb (UNACCEPTABLE)
disapproving
in a way that is dishonest, unfair, or unacceptable:
The government rejects the claim that it has behaved grubbily.
I don't like the way that chat show grubbily takes advantage of people who are struggling.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Humiliating and degrading
abase
abasement
be under a cloudidiom
bring/take someone down a peg (or two)idiom
bruise someone's egoidiom
disgraced
dishonour
dishonourable
dishonourably
doghouse
ignobly
ignominious
ignominiously
ignominy
in the doghouseidiom
shoddily
shoddiness
shoddy
stoop
stoop to something
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