grubbiness

By the second week of grubbiness, I was starting to agree with him.

I am not sure what dictatorship - particularly one that ended 16 years ago - has to do with grubbiness.

It was surprising to see how thoroughly we had adapted to the cold and grubbiness.

These characters are raging against, if not the dying of the light, then its disappointing grubbiness.

Someone in my position should always be able to compartmentalise the job; not let the grubbiness rub off on to his private life.

In California, there is a dandy substitute for bothering with nature and that grubbiness.

The trouble is, dreams do nothing to vary the relentless grubbiness of their (and the reader's) experience.

Unfortunately it's got a sort of general grubbiness to it as well, hasn't it?

The city's grubbiness works a vivid contrast to the visions of Turkey that flicker throughout the film.

Grubbiness was the least of Chile's problems.

Beneath a surface grubbiness inside, the seats, carpets and trim were in excellent condition.

"It's not always the case that form of journalistic grubbiness is inexcusable," Hislop said.

She put up an instinctive hand to tidy them away, then caught sight of its grubbiness and put it quickly behind her back.

Unemployed, he dabbles with cartoons, artistically feeding off the grubbiness of his environment.

In general, Carroll was disgusted by the commercialism and grubbiness of many of the holy places.

And despite the general grubbiness of the scene and the action, "there is no sense of despair.

"Hustle" doesn't dwell on class or race or the grubbiness of real life in a declining empire.

McCurdy captures not only the elemental fears but the daily grubbiness of adventure.

If he was surprised by the grubbiness of the ill-equipped Vicarage kitchen he concealed it.

For all the grubbiness in big-time college sports, there is still a transcendent pulsation in the Final Four.

Whereas she seemed totally fantastic, Kenneth French, as her shabby attendant, may have symbolized the real world's grubbiness.

And while this grubbiness sometimes brings bad PR, it's less hassle than asking for public money at a time of hysterical state parsimony.

Rock stars had put drugs, risk and grubbiness on public display, and one or two, like David Bowie, made androgyny into spectacle.

He loved it instantly -- the shameless tawdriness, the grubbiness, the tattered sinfulness, the soullessness of the place.

Rather, it prides itself, as one resident, a cartoonist named Mathew Martin, said, on "a sort of worn-out inner-city grubbiness."