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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Styling a short-sleeve over a long-sleeve feels grungy and laid-back.
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Kelsey Stiegman, Glamour, 27 Mar. 2026
But the Tarantino fetish becomes so pronounced in Russian writer-director Kirill Sokolov’s addition to the grungy revenge-thriller that every quick zoom and shock-cinema score cue starts to feel less like an adrenaline spike and more like a rib nudge.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 Mar. 2026
In a grungy space off Main Street, Liquid Diet’s mindbending cocktails evoke flavors of grocery store items like chocolate chip banana bread and bell peppers.
—Roger Kisby, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2026
Black washes with grungy tints were part of Elena Velez’s range of jeans and asymmetrical skirts.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 24 Feb. 2026
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Kelsey Stiegman, Glamour, 27 Mar. 2026
But the Tarantino fetish becomes so pronounced in Russian writer-director Kirill Sokolov’s addition to the grungy revenge-thriller that every quick zoom and shock-cinema score cue starts to feel less like an adrenaline spike and more like a rib nudge.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 Mar. 2026
In a grungy space off Main Street, Liquid Diet’s mindbending cocktails evoke flavors of grocery store items like chocolate chip banana bread and bell peppers.
—Roger Kisby, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2026
Black washes with grungy tints were part of Elena Velez’s range of jeans and asymmetrical skirts.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 24 Feb. 2026
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 6 Apr. 2026.
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