0 dirty, unpleasant, or of poor quality -- teruk
a grotty flat/hotel.
There are one or two grotty stalls, but no customer with any sense will go to a grotty stall, or if he goes once he will not go again.
Not only are they penalised for having brought up children by receiving a grotty pension, but they will be penalised again through receiving a grotty savings credit.
It sends the name down to the housing department which groans and tries to find a grotty flat on some estate in which to put the young person.
Among today's pensioners and people approaching retirement age, it is always women who have grotty pensions or poor pension rights.
Nobody wants to live in those grotty estates that were built in those years.
Was it a grotty hospital to work in—although presumably staff had not had that problem before?
By "bed and breakfast" we mean grotty and mean hotels, those places which are despicable, vile and overcrowded.
Often they say that they were offered a house, but that it was pretty grotty because no repairs had been carried out.
