grungier; grungiest
1
: shabby or dirty in character or condition
2
: characteristic of grunge music or fashion
Examples of grungy in a Sentence
After working in the garden all day, I felt sweaty and grungy.
a grungy pair of jeans
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No, not grungy, but just bass-heavy and 808, and drums and just mad, hard percussions.
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2025
While staples like Rudy’s, Welcome to the Johnsons and Sophie’s offer the purest form of dive bar — cash-only and grungy with cheap beer and shot deals — Romeo’s gives you the best of both worlds.
—Kaitlyn Rosati, New York Daily News, 16 Apr. 2025
Angèle Angèle goes grungy with a leather coat and fishnet leggings with a black belt cinching her lavender look.
—Brendan Le, People.com, 6 May 2025
Along the way, the duo bicker, and bond, and encounter a host of interchangeable character actors who appear to have waited their entire career for the chance to appear in a grungy Western.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2025
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Apr. 2025
While staples like Rudy’s, Welcome to the Johnsons and Sophie’s offer the purest form of dive bar — cash-only and grungy with cheap beer and shot deals — Romeo’s gives you the best of both worlds.
—Kaitlyn Rosati, New York Daily News, 16 Apr. 2025
Angèle Angèle goes grungy with a leather coat and fishnet leggings with a black belt cinching her lavender look.
—Brendan Le, People.com, 6 May 2025
Along the way, the duo bicker, and bond, and encounter a host of interchangeable character actors who appear to have waited their entire career for the chance to appear in a grungy Western.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for grungy
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“Grungy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grungy. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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