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词汇 grotty
释义 grotty
adjective
UKinformaluk /ˈɡrɒt.i/ us /ˈɡrɑː.t̬i/
unpleasant or of bad quality: 令人讨厌的,令人不悦的;低劣的
a grotty little room简陋的小房间
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Informal words for bad
badass
bobbin
bum
crappy
crash and burnidiom
crook
cruddy
duff
lousy
not be up to muchidiom
pappy
piss-poor
pisser
shite
shoddiness
shoddy
shonky
such as it isidiom
super-bad
tacky

Examples of grotty


grotty
It is in a grotty state at the moment.
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Usually their home would be a couple of rooms in a grotty private landlord's domain, which was not satisfactory.
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A seat belt in my car is in a grotty state, having been trapped in the door several times.
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Five years were spent under pretty grotty management, although before then the management was good.
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If people live in a place that is in a pretty grotty state, they are less likely to want to acquire responsibility for it.
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People become trapped in high-rise, grotty, rundown houses from which they cannot be transferred.
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It is a "grotty" and, indeed, an undignified motion.
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Often they say that they were offered a house, but that it was pretty grotty because no repairs had been carried out.
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By "bed and breakfast" we mean grotty and mean hotels, those places which are despicable, vile and overcrowded.
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Was it a grotty hospital to work in—although presumably staff had not had that problem before?
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Nobody wants to live in those grotty estates that were built in those years.
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Among today's pensioners and people approaching retirement age, it is always women who have grotty pensions or poor pension rights.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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