One of the big hotels offered the use of its bathrooms to people who were not only dishoused, but a bit grubby.
Our forefathers certainly gave us a good deal—and these folk want to get their grubby hands on it.
Now, only 15 months afterwards, we find them grubby in their performance.
One is as neat and cosy as the other is grubby and bare.
We must be careful about using words such as "shabby"and"grubby" in this context.
They are a grubby, dirty business and are taken by people who are inadequate.
There is no more to it than the grubby business of being a street politician getting by from one problem to the next.
Having to start or finish a journey in a grubby, poorly planned and overcrowded terminus is demoralising to both passengers and operators.