(a.) Containing sand or grit; consisting of grit; caused by grit; full of hard particles.
(a.) Spirited; resolute; unyielding.
Example Sentences:
(1) Given his background, Boyle says, growing up in a council house near Bury, with his two sisters (one a twin) and his strict and hard-working parents (his mum worked as a dinner lady at his school), he should by rights have been a gritty social realist, but that tradition never appealed to him.
(2) San Francisco Tenderloin map They could potentially gentrify this gritty, 50-block swath of downtown into condos, lofts, hipster bars, organic cafes and yoga studios, as has happened in other parts of San Francisco and the Bay area.
(3) Concluding that he didn't really want a career as a gritty Northern Irish realist, Harvey decided to train as a teacher.
(4) Sitting in the bar at the Lowry theatre in Salford’s Media City, Shindler is talking about the word “gritty”.
(5) Click here to view video This year has been all about exciting gritty modern TV dramas.
(6) A gritty town battered by the decline of its lumber industry, it is mocked as hicksville by its rival, snootier neighbour, the university city Eugene, which Groening renamed Shelbyville.
(7) It manages to be both hard-hitting and emotional, gritty and warm."
(8) The chief executive is pinning early hopes on Breaking Bad, a gritty US drama in which a chemistry teacher with terminal cancer sets up a crystal meth lab, which was barely noticed when it aired on 5USA, although for all its merits it might not exactly be classified as family entertainment.
(9) Yet there is a tendency to switch off from this conversation as it moves from ambitious words and statements on to the nitty gritty of implementation.
(10) Bellows is known for his powerful paintings representing the hardship and desperation and grittiness of life in New York as it emerged in to the 20th century.
(11) "There is plenty of gritty contemporary life on the wrong side of the tracks, but there is also a ridiculous story of revenge.
(12) The chondroblastoma was located in a small gritty mass at one pole of the cyst, which could have easily been overlooked.
(13) That’s a difficult exercise, particularly with all the lawyers involved in the process and looking at the nitty-gritty of every word that is written down,” Zarif told journalists during a visit to Madrid.
(14) Fifteen years ago, the flag was the subject of a gritty partisan struggle in the state house and an economic boycott by the NAACP.
(15) Symptoms of grittiness and morning stickiness were more frequent among patients without enhanced responses.
(16) Prey is a gritty, concretey number, and while Reinhardt may be the least-kempt of the cast, every character drinks too much, looks constantly knackered and is therefore entirely believable.
(17) Of 440 amputations for vascular disease, 193 were above-knee, 193 below-knee, 15 Gritti-Stokes, 15 through-knee and 24 bilateral.
(18) In her day this was a gritty neighbourhood and it hasn’t changed much, with a shabby market by the metro station and blocks of peeling townhouses; this is the real, old Paris, the world she sang about, with its desperate cast of thieves and tramps and lovers.
(19) "That kind of geographic splitting can certainly create opportunities for speciation, so it's a plausible mechanism, but I'd like to see a more extensive and fine-grained review of the evidence than Mark and his coauthors could cram into their paper – one that gets into the nitty-gritty of where the basins were, when the marine barriers between them would have appeared and disappeared, and what lived in them."
(20) Fishwick's layer upon layer of northern grittiness versus southern sniffiness will be grating for some.
Mealy
Definition:
(superl.) Having the qualities of meal; resembling meal; soft, dry, and friable; easily reduced to a condition resembling meal; as, a mealy potato.
(superl.) Overspread with something that resembles meal; as, the mealy wings of an insect.
Example Sentences:
(1) I will be mealy-mouthed, he repeats, according to translation by my colleague Saeed Kamili Dehghan.
(2) Malcolm Turnbull refuses to denounce Trump's travel ban Read more Facebook Twitter Pinterest Turnbull: ‘When I have frank advice to give an American president, I give it privately’ This is not the time for the Australian government to offer mealy-mouthed platitudes about not commenting on the policies of other countries.
(3) No mealy-mouthed, "I might have done it a little bit" teary-eyed confessions on Oprah.
(4) It is mealy mouthed, offensive and lacking in any acknowledgment of the huge abuse of power and harm caused to my clients".
(5) Cue a costly whizz-bang extravaganza of CG-powered set pieces foreshadowed with the odd slab of mealy cod philosophy.
(6) Labour's position holds the most obvious risks: it will take subtle speech-writing and iron discipline in television interviews for Ed Balls and Mr Miliband not to sound either defensive about their own criticisms of austerity, or mealy-mouthed about the modest recovery Britain is at last enjoying.
(7) Representations of acute current issues facing the queer community are thinner on the ground – don't hold your breath for a studio picture about the murder of a homeless teenage trans sex worker – but let's not be mealy-mouthed.
(8) Down the road at Bradbury's butchers, whose shelves heave with haggis, beef links, mealie puddings and clootie dumplings, a few customers have begun to discuss the break-up of the union.
(9) The Mail, uncharacteristically cowed, removed the story from its website and, more characteristically, issued a mealy-mouthed apology, insisting the story was published "in good faith" and was written by a writer who has "strong connections with senior members of the Lebanese community".
(10) If and when he has made apologies, they are often delivered too late and are mealy-mouthed Ken Livingstone appears incapable of contrition .
(11) If and when he has made apologies, they are often delivered too late and are mealy-mouthed, and the worst of all apologies is the one that takes no responsibility for their actions .
(12) But given the film-maker clearly enjoys the fascination that surrounds his work, his decision does seem a little mealy-mouthed.
(13) When the DNA of mealy bugs carrying B chromosomes (+B:DNA( was compared to the DNA of individuals not possessing Bs (-B:DNA), no significant differences were found using isopycnic centrifugations in CsCl or thermal denaturation analyses.
(14) – ebb and surge through a once-in-a-lifetime cast (Gloria Grahame, Lillian Gish, Richard Widmark) in which the doctors are often nuttier than the patients; or Tea And Sympathy, a halting, mealy-mouthed and profoundly dated attempt to deal, however obliquely, with the taboo of homosexuality, here dubbed "unmanliness".
(15) The arms exports to Israel must stop.” In a further interview with Channel 4 News, Warsi suggested Cameron had been “mealy-mouthed” over his refusal to say Israel’s actions had been disproportionate.
(16) Stocks of mealie meal are needed for families until the next harvest.
(17) Indiana governor on defensive over religious law some see as anti-gay Read more The real political mistake was the strength of the RFRA in the first place: rather than a mealy-mouthed statutory reminder of the constitutional right to religion without government interference to placate a loud minority, it boldly delineates the mechanisms of unaccountable discrimination on a citizen-by-citizen basis and dangerously reminds the rest of us of the control that Christian bigots have had over American society from day one until the present.
(18) She says some “became activists in the leadership contest ... (and) that’s not their job as journalists.” She also used the conversation with Martin to deliver a hard flick at radio talkback host Alan Jones – the broadcaster who declared Gillard’s father had “died of shame.” Gillard says Jones delivered only a “mealy mouthed apology” for the infelicitous outburst, and he only delivered that because of commercial pressure.
(19) These issues are far too serious for us to have been mealy-mouthed and for us to be dragging our heels.” Warsi was known to have been unhappy with Cameron’s failure to unequivocally condemn Israel’s incursion into Gaza or the mounting death toll.
(20) All right, some of us have banged on for decades about this horrid, mealy-mouthed, catch-all word, hoping to limit its use.