States and conditions
Synonyms for grubby
The synonym for grubby recorded in this bank is dingy, in the sense "thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for grubby
- dingyadjective, in the sense "thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day grubby is audited in a second meaning.
thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot
Grubby little fingers.
The true synonym
dingy
Same sentence, swapped: Dingy little fingers.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- teeming
- ravaged
- negligent
Where grubby turns up in the game
grubby is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play grubby
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so grubby reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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