grimy

Modifying Another Word

• very: Here a ramp leads down to the original station entrance subway with its white glazed brick walls now looking very grimy.
• rather: The accommodation was a wooden bunk in the back of a lorry, shared with two other clowns and four rather grimy tattooed laborers.
• all: Their hands and faces were all grimy, and their clothes.
• slightly: Coming off the slightly grimy platform at Manchester Picadilly I was most impressed by the rest of the station.

Modifies a noun

• street: But no longer will you find the grimy back streets, or rows of chimneys belching back smoke.
• window: Through my grimy window, I observe the old man shuffle past with his new companion.
• town: Burne-Jones spent the first 20 years of his life in Birmingham, then a grimy industrial town.
• face: With sweat running down his forehead eroding rivulets into a grimy face, he holds a goats head by its horns over roaring flames.
• hand: She had the faded picture clasped in her grimy, knotted hands.
• wall: Painted on to a grimy white wall were the words 'The Gate Vegetarian Restaurant ' .

Used with adjective complement

• look: Here a ramp leads down to the original station entrance subway with its white glazed brick walls now looking very grimy.