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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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