grubby
柯林斯詞典
1. ADJ A grubby person or object is rather dirty. 骯臟的
His white coat was grubby and stained. 他的白外套又臟又有污跡。
2. ADJ If you call an activity or someone's behaviour grubby, you mean that it is not completely honest or respectable. 卑鄙的[表不滿]
...the grubby business of politics. …政治的卑鄙勾當(dāng)。
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grubby /?ɡr?b?/ (grubbier,grubbiest)
劍橋詞典
- informal
dirty
（同 dirty）
He was wearing some old shorts and a grubby T-shirt . 他穿著一條破舊的短褲和一件臟兮兮的T恤衫。
Don't wipe your grubby hands on my clean towel ! 別拿我的干凈毛巾擦你那臟手！
disapproving
If you describe an activity or someone's behaviour as grubby, you do not think that it is honest , fair , or acceptable .
卑鄙的，可鄙的
She sees the business of making money as just grubby opportunism . 在她眼中，賺錢(qián)的生意只不過(guò)是可鄙的投機(jī)行為而已。
He doesn't want this story to get into the grubby hands of the tabloid press (= to be obtained by newspapers that are not honest and fair ). 他不想讓這件事情登到那些卑鄙下流的小報(bào)上去。 返回 grubby