frayed | (adjective) worn away or tattered along the edges | - |
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freaky | (adjective) strange and somewhat frightening | - |
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(adjective) conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual | Synonyms: bizarre, eccentric, flakey, flaky, freakish, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre |
friendly | (adjective) characteristic of or befitting a friend | - |
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(adjective) of or belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally | - |
(adjective) easy to understand or use | - |
(adjective) inclined to help or support; not antagonistic or hostile | Synonyms: well-disposed, well disposed |
frilly | (adjective) having decorative ruffles or frills | Synonyms: frilled, ruffled |
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fringy | (adjective) at or constituting a border or edge | Synonyms: marginal |
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frisky | (adjective) playful like a lively kitten | Synonyms: kittenish |
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frizzly | (adjective) (of hair) in small tight curls | Synonyms: crisp, frizzy, kinky, nappy |
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frizzy | (adjective) (of hair) in small tight curls | Synonyms: crisp, frizzly, kinky, nappy |
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frolicky | (adjective) given to merry frolicking | Synonyms: coltish, frolicsome, rollicking, sportive |
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frosty | (adjective) devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain | Synonyms: frigid, frozen, glacial, icy, wintry |
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(adjective) pleasantly cold and invigorating | Synonyms: crisp, nipping, nippy, snappy |
(adjective) covered with frost | Synonyms: rimed, rimy |
frothy | (adjective) emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation | Synonyms: bubbling, bubbly, effervescing, foaming, foamy, spumy |
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(adjective) marked by high spirits or excitement | Synonyms: bubbling, effervescent, scintillating, sparkly |
frowsty | (adjective) stale and unclean smelling | Synonyms: fusty, musty |
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frowsy | (adjective) negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt | Synonyms: frowzy, slovenly |
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frowzy | (adjective) negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt | Synonyms: frowsy, slovenly |
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fruity | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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(adjective) tasting or smelling richly of or as of fruit | - |
frumpy | (adjective) primly out of date | Synonyms: dowdy, frumpish |
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fuggy | (adjective) (British informal) poorly ventilated | - |
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fugly | (adjective) (slang) extremely ugly | - |
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funerary | (adjective) of or for or relating to a funeral | - |
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funky | (adjective) in a state of cowardly fright | - |
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(adjective) (of jazz) having the soulful feeling of early blues | Synonyms: low-down |
(adjective) offensively malodorous | Synonyms: fetid, foetid, foul-smelling, foul, ill-scented, noisome, smelly, stinking |
(adjective) stylish and modern in an unconventional way | - |
funny | (adjective) arousing or provoking laughter | Synonyms: amusing, comic, comical, laughable, mirthful, risible |
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(adjective) experiencing odd bodily sensations | - |
(adjective) not as expected | Synonyms: fishy, shady, suspect, suspicious |
(adjective) beyond or deviating from the usual or expected | Synonyms: curious, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singular |
furry | (adjective) covered with a dense coat of fine silky hairs | Synonyms: furred |
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fussy | (adjective) overcrowded or cluttered with detail | Synonyms: busy |
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(adjective) annoyed and irritable | Synonyms: bad-tempered, crabbed, crabby, cross, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered |
(adjective) exacting especially about details | Synonyms: finical, finicky, particular, picky |
fusty | (adjective) old-fashioned and out of date | Synonyms: nonprogressive, standpat, unprogressive |
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(adjective) stale and unclean smelling | Synonyms: frowsty, musty |
fuzzy | (adjective) covering with fine light hairs | Synonyms: fuzzed |
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(adjective) confused and not coherent; not clearly thought out | - |
(adjective) indistinct or hazy in outline | Synonyms: bleary, blurred, blurry, foggy, hazy, muzzy |
gabby | (adjective) full of trivial conversation | Synonyms: chatty, garrulous, loquacious, talkative, talky |
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gainly | (adjective) graceful and pleasing | - |
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gamey | (adjective) willing to face danger | Synonyms: game, gamy, gritty, mettlesome, spirited, spunky |
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(adjective) (used of the smell of meat) smelling spoiled or tainted | Synonyms: gamy, high |
(adjective) suggestive of sexual impropriety | Synonyms: blue, gamy, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy |
gammy | (adjective) (British informal) sore or lame | - |
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gamy | (adjective) willing to face danger | Synonyms: game, gamey, gritty, mettlesome, spirited, spunky |
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(adjective) (used of the smell of meat) smelling spoiled or tainted | Synonyms: gamey, high |
(adjective) suggestive of sexual impropriety | Synonyms: blue, gamey, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy |
gangly | (adjective) tall and thin and having long slender limbs | Synonyms: gangling, lanky, rangy |
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(adjective) tall and thin | Synonyms: gangling, lanky |
garlicky | (adjective) relating to or tasting or smelling of garlic | - |
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gassy | (adjective) resembling gas | - |
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(adjective) suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal | Synonyms: colicky, flatulent |
gaudy | (adjective) (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display | Synonyms: flashy, jazzy, showy, sporty |
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(adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
gauzy | (adjective) so thin as to transmit light | Synonyms: cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous |
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gawky | (adjective) lacking grace in movement or posture | Synonyms: clumsy, clunky, ungainly, unwieldy |
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gay | (adjective) bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer | Synonyms: cheery, sunny |
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(adjective) brightly colored and showy | Synonyms: brave, braw |
(adjective) homosexual or arousing homosexual desires | Synonyms: homophile, queer |
(adjective) given to social pleasures often including dissipation | - |
(adjective) offering fun and gaiety | Synonyms: festal, festive, merry |
(adjective) full of or showing high-spirited merriment | Synonyms: jocund, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful |
genitourinary | (adjective) of or related to the genital and urinary organs or their functions | Synonyms: GU |
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genotypic | (adjective) of or relating to or constituting a genotype | Synonyms: genotypical |
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genotypical | (adjective) of or relating to or constituting a genotype | Synonyms: genotypic |
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gentlemanly | (adjective) befitting a man of good breeding | Synonyms: gentlemanlike |
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geophysical | (adjective) of or concerned with geophysics | - |
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geophytic | (adjective) of or relating to geophytes | - |
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geostationary | (adjective) of or having a geosynchronous orbit such that the position in such an orbit is fixed with respect to the earth | - |
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geosynchronous | (adjective) of or having an orbit with a fixed period of 24 hours (although the position in the orbit may not be fixed with respect to the earth) | - |
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germy | (adjective) full of germs or pathological microorganisms | - |
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ghastly | (adjective) shockingly repellent; inspiring horror | Synonyms: grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick |
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(adjective) gruesomely indicative of death or the dead | Synonyms: charnel, sepulchral |
ghostly | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a phantom | Synonyms: apparitional, ghostlike, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual |
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giddy | (adjective) lacking seriousness; given to frivolity | Synonyms: airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, light-headed, lightheaded, silly |
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(adjective) having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling | Synonyms: dizzy, vertiginous, woozy |
gimpy | (adjective) disabled in the feet or legs | Synonyms: crippled, game, halt, halting, lame |
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gingerly | (adjective) with extreme care or delicacy | - |
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gingery | (adjective) (used especially of hair or fur) having a bright orange-brown color | Synonyms: ginger |
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(adjective) having a taste like that of ginger | - |
glary | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blazing, blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glaring |
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glassy | (adjective) (used of eyes) lacking liveliness | Synonyms: glazed |
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(adjective) (of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it | Synonyms: vitreous, vitrified |
(adjective) resembling glass in smoothness and shininess and slickness | - |
glimmery | (adjective) shining softly and intermittently | - |
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glittery | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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gloomy | (adjective) depressingly dark | Synonyms: gloomful, glooming, sulky |
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(adjective) filled with melancholy and despondency | Synonyms: blue, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, grim, low-spirited, low |
(adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, grim, sorry |
glossopharyngeal | (adjective) pertaining to the tongue and throat | - |
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glossy | (adjective) superficially attractive and stylish; suggesting wealth or expense | Synonyms: showy |
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(adjective) reflecting light | Synonyms: glistening, lustrous, sheeny, shining, shiny |
(adjective) (of paper and fabric and leather) having a surface made smooth and shiny especially by pressing between rollers | Synonyms: calendered |
(adjective) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing | Synonyms: gilded, meretricious, specious |
glowy | (adjective) appearing to be glowing | - |
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gluey | (adjective) having the sticky properties of an adhesive | Synonyms: glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous |
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glycogenic | (adjective) of or relating to or involving glycogen | - |
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gnarly | (adjective) used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots | Synonyms: gnarled, knobbed, knotted, knotty |
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godly | (adjective) emanating from God | Synonyms: divine |
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(adjective) showing great reverence for god | Synonyms: reverent, worshipful |
goodly | (adjective) large in amount or extent or degree | Synonyms: goodish, healthy, hefty, respectable, sizable, sizeable, tidy |
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gooey | (adjective) soft and sticky | Synonyms: icky |
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goofy | (adjective) ludicrous, foolish | Synonyms: silly, wacky, whacky, zany |
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goosey | (adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: anserine, dopey, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosy, jerky |
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goosy | (adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: anserine, dopey, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosey, jerky |
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gory | (adjective) covered with blood | Synonyms: bloodstained |
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(adjective) accompanied by bloodshed | Synonyms: butcherly, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous |
gossipy | (adjective) prone to friendly informal communication | Synonyms: chatty, newsy |
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gouty | (adjective) suffering from gout | - |
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grabby | (adjective) immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth | Synonyms: avaricious, covetous, grasping, greedy, prehensile |
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gradatory | (adjective) taking place by degrees | Synonyms: gradational, graduated |
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grainy | (adjective) composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency | Synonyms: coarse-grained, farinaceous, granular, granulose, gritty, mealy |
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granulocytic | (adjective) of or relating to granulocytes | - |
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grapey | (adjective) having a taste like that of grapes | Synonyms: grapy |
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grapy | (adjective) having a taste like that of grapes | Synonyms: grapey |
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grassy | (adjective) abounding in grass | - |
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gratifying | (adjective) affording satisfaction or pleasure | Synonyms: enjoyable, pleasurable |
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(adjective) pleasing to the mind or feeling | Synonyms: sweet |
gratulatory | (adjective) expressive of sympathetic pleasure or joy on account of someone's success or good fortune | Synonyms: congratulatory |
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gravelly | (adjective) unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound | Synonyms: grating, rasping, raspy, rough, scratchy |
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(adjective) abounding in small stones | Synonyms: pebbly, shingly |
gray | (adjective) of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black | Synonyms: grayish, grey, greyish |
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(adjective) intermediate in character or position | Synonyms: grey |
(adjective) showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair | Synonyms: gray-haired, gray-headed, grey-haired, grey-headed, grey, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired |
(adjective) used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms) | Synonyms: grey |
grayish | (adjective) of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black | Synonyms: gray, grey, greyish |
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greasy | (adjective) smeared or soiled with grease or oil | Synonyms: oily |
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(adjective) containing an unusual amount of grease or oil | Synonyms: oily, oleaginous, sebaceous |
greedy | (adjective) immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth | Synonyms: avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, prehensile |
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(adjective) (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous | Synonyms: avid, devouring, esurient |
(adjective) wanting to eat or drink more than one can reasonably consume | - |
grey | (adjective) of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black | Synonyms: gray, grayish, greyish |
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(adjective) intermediate in character or position | Synonyms: gray |
(adjective) showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair | Synonyms: gray-haired, gray-headed, gray, grey-haired, grey-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired |
(adjective) used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms) | Synonyms: gray |
greyed | (adjective) deprived of color | Synonyms: dulled |
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greyish | (adjective) of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black | Synonyms: gray, grayish, grey |
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grimy | (adjective) thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot | Synonyms: begrimed, dingy, grubby, grungy, raunchy |
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grisly | (adjective) shockingly repellent; inspiring horror | Synonyms: ghastly, grim, gruesome, macabre, sick |
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gristly | (adjective) difficult to chew | Synonyms: cartilaginous, rubbery |
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gritty | (adjective) willing to face danger | Synonyms: game, gamey, gamy, mettlesome, spirited, spunky |
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(adjective) composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency | Synonyms: coarse-grained, farinaceous, grainy, granular, granulose, mealy |
grizzly | (adjective) showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair | Synonyms: gray-haired, gray-headed, gray, grey-haired, grey-headed, grey, hoar, hoary, white-haired |
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groggy | (adjective) stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion) | Synonyms: dazed, foggy, logy, stuporous |
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groovy | (adjective) (British informal) very chic | Synonyms: swagger |
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(adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
grotty | (adjective) very unpleasant or offensive | - |
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grouchy | (adjective) annoyed and irritable | Synonyms: bad-tempered, crabbed, crabby, cross, fussy, grumpy, ill-tempered |
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grubby | (adjective) infested with grubs | - |
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(adjective) thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot | Synonyms: begrimed, dingy, grimy, grungy, raunchy |
grumpy | (adjective) annoyed and irritable | Synonyms: bad-tempered, crabbed, crabby, cross, fussy, grouchy, ill-tempered |
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