grubby
adj. 污秽的,邋遢的; 肮脏的,不洁的; 生蛆的; 卑鄙的
A grubby person or object is rather dirty.
His white coat was grubby and stained.
他的白色外套污迹斑斑,简直脏透了。
...kids with grubby faces.
脸上脏兮兮的孩子
If you call an activity or someone's behaviour grubby, you mean that it is not completely honest or respectable.
...the grubby business of politics.
肮脏的政治活动
1. small sculpin of the coast of New England
1. thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot;
Yet in recent years graduates have rarely aspired to such a grubby job as teaching.
然而近几年几乎没有毕业生立志做老师,他们认为这个职业不体面.
In another rested a manger scene produced from cardboard and poster paints by chubby grubby, hands.
教室的另—角是—个涂着海报油彩由纸板制成的马槽,这出自孩子们那胖乎乎 、 脏兮兮的小手.
Look at your grubby hands!
看你那双脏手!
I'm not keen on this new metaphor, partly because I'm a grubby Brit.
我对这种新的隐喻并不热衷, 在一定程度上是因为我是个不修边幅的英国人.
Prostitution may be a grubby business, but it's not the government's.
卖淫也许是个污秽的行当, 但却不关政府的事.