| That first bathe seemed to wash away all the heat and smoke and grubbiness of dear old London. |
| Grandma's elephantine ankles, mother's hypochondria, Grandpa's grubbiness, are all experienced as her own. |
| But at times it is the moments of personal grubbiness that stand out. |
| The splendour and the sordor is side by side, the audacity and the grubbiness, the pathos and bathos. |
| His assertion was undercut by the obvious elderliness and grubbiness of the phone. |
| He, on the other hand, seems to believe that a certain amount of grubbiness in politics is only to be expected and tolerated. |
