What's the difference between grubby and unwashed?

Grubby


Definition:

  • (a.) Dirty; unclean.
  • (n.) Any species of Cottus; a sculpin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "We were not in the army," says Sunday Sienda, 21, wearing a grubby Barcelona football shirt.
  • (2) "I am an old lady, and have many grandchildren," she says, pointing to the gaunt, grubby faces baking around her in the tent.
  • (3) They say that she didn't work for it but some people say that she fought for it," he said huddled over a small wooden box containing hundreds of grubby looking Liberian notes.
  • (4) If drug cartel kingpin El Chapo stays in Mexico, 'absolutely nothing' will change Read more A joint police and military operation seized Guzmán at a hotel after a battle which left five dead and six captured, including the cartel leader who appeared dazed and grubby in photographs.
  • (5) – rather than on the man’s indecent entitlement, grubbiness and criminality.” 'These women are not statistics' – deaths in Australia in 2015 Read more Surely Lay would cringe, then, at comments made by Victorian homicide squad head, detective inspector Mick Hughes, following the brutal and seemingly random killing of 17-year-old schoolgirl, Masa Vukotic, in broad daylight while she was out walking as part of her usual exercise routine.
  • (6) The BBC should be ashamed of single-handedly doing a racist, fascist party the biggest favour in its grubby history.
  • (7) A chink, the merest pinprick of light, has opened up in the grubby soap opera of Sepp Blatter, Fifa and the future of football.
  • (8) When first confronted by Arab political revolutions, Britain vacillated, reluctant to abandon useful and grubby friendship with corrupt regimes.
  • (9) John McDonnell , the shadow chancellor, said: “The behaviour of the chancellor over the last 11 days calls into question his fitness for office he now holds.” The budget was the result of the “grubby, incompetent manipulations of a political chancellor”, he added.
  • (10) I'm not sure what sort of woman "we" expect to suffer domestic abuse, but those of us who spend too much of our lives reading celebrity autobiographies are not quite as shocked by proof that domestic abuse is not solely "the grubby problem of the inarticulate and poorly educated, who can't eloquently express their frustration, who are not self-aware or emotionally intelligent enough to thrash out their differences via a civilised heart-to-heart, rather than simply with a thrashing".
  • (11) Senator Conroy has opened his account as Labor’s defence spokesman with a grubby and pre meditated slur against one of our most respected 3-star lieutenant general officers, accusing him of a political cover-up no less.
  • (12) The Scottish first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, characterised it as a “grubby, shameless” deal.
  • (13) Two decades on from denationalisation, and with oversight entrusted to technocratic regulators who regard themselves as untouchable as judges, the very idea of grubby politics intervening directly on what businesses charge families for fuel had come to seem unthinkable.
  • (14) McCann approves of a bawdy drinking song recorded by the Hold Steady , and there are grubby cameos from Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol and Will Champion of Coldplay.
  • (15) 12.55pm BST Mo Yan's China: 'a world of magic, sexual exploitation, ignorance and senseless violence' In his top 10 books on China , Paul Mason chose Mo's Big Breasts and Wide Hips as his number two, calling it Mo's masterpiece: China's 20th century told symbolically through the story of one man, from birth to maturity; an adult who cannot wean himself from his mother's milk, assailed by wave upon wave of misfortune, poverty, war, imprisonment and finally release into the grubby capitalism of the 1990s.
  • (16) The Trumpian “so” also works similarly in the opposite direction: to intensify negatives without descending to grubby detail.
  • (17) Beyond lies Kamrangir Char, a vast slum where clouds of acrid smoke from burning rubbish hide tenements packed with thin men, anxious women and grubby children with tubercular coughs.
  • (18) Grubby green fingers For small children, the magic of planting a seed and watching it grow (watch out for overzealous waterers) may even trump the CBeebies schedule.
  • (19) It feels grubby to enter such a debate as Aleppo burns, but the revision of history demands a response.
  • (20) There are outliers in the discourse, but asylum seekers are condemned by some as “vermin” and “ like cockroaches ”, or sneered at as “filthy”, “grubby” or “penniless”.

Unwashed


Definition:

  • (a.) Not washed or cleansed; filthy; unclean.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) ROS that had been washed to remove soluble and peripheral proteins incorporated less label than unwashed ROS into phosphatidic acid and phosphatidylinositol.
  • (2) An epidemiological survey carried out in the Dodoma region of Tanzania found that high rates of trachoma infection in pre-school children were associated with unwashed faces.
  • (3) Should I be killed, I would like to be buried, according to Muslim rituals, in the clothes I was wearing at the time of my death and my body unwashed, in the cemetery of Sirte, next to my family and relatives.
  • (4) Two kidneys (Group 3), deemed unsuitable for transplantation, were perfused for 24 hours with perfusate swished with unwashed sterile gloves.
  • (5) The "unwashed" BDT usually became negative within 6-9 months of beginning immunotherapy, whereas the IgE-RAST was still clearly positive.
  • (6) This method may avoid the clinical complications often arising with unwashed grafts.
  • (7) Certain enzyme treatments (pronase, trypsin and lipase) dramatically increase the waiting period in both washed enzyme-treated cells and in unwashed cells.
  • (8) Eighteen exposures each lasting six hours were performed while carding unwashed and washed cottons from the three major growing regions of the United States.
  • (9) After weeks of unwashed silence he's finally dismantled his crisis-beard and returned his woollen catastrophe-hat to the BBC's Break In Case Of Homelessness box.
  • (10) Comparison of electrophoretic patterns of ribosomal proteins from NH(4)Cl-washed and unwashed ribosomes and F(2), at pH 4.5, shows that F(2) corresponds to the slowest-moving component of the proteins derived from unwashed ribosomes.
  • (11) Inside the carriage the temperature was stifling, the stench of unwashed bodies and stale urine overwhelming.
  • (12) Seven of twenty unwashed endoscopes were contaminated by HIV.
  • (13) Oleate desaturation required oxygen and with unwashed microsomal fractions was stimulated either by NADPH or by the 105 000g supernatant.
  • (14) A superiority in unwashed specimens was observed in glass versus polystyrene concerning velocity, motility percentage, and HOS testing (p less than 0.01).
  • (15) This finding, together with the ionic analysis of the unwashed thylakoids and of isolated intact chloroplasts, indicated that the major physiological surface cation is Mg2+ and that K+ is probably the main inorganic cation of the stroma.
  • (16) This oxidation accounts for differences noted in levels of N-hydroxyphentermine formed from phentermine in washed and unwashed microsome preparations.
  • (17) The possibility of formalization of structure of a neuronal ensemble (the washed out multitude of neurons) was shown, examples of determining the function of a neuron belonging to a neuronal ensemble were presented, the questions of transition from washed out multitudes to unwashed those were considered.
  • (18) There is a difference in surface heterogeneity between sperm which have been washed in buffer or left unwashed, direct from the ejaculate.
  • (19) Two soluble protein fractions isolated from E. coli were found to be required for efficient expression of the amp gene of pBR322 in an in vitro coupled transcription-translation system consisting of unwashed ribosomes and a polyethylene glycol-treated S30 extract from E. coli.
  • (20) The concentration in unwashed erythrocytes was at least twofold higher, but the value in washed red cells was not due to leukocyte contamination because it did not decrease further when washed cells were passed through an Imgard column, which would have removed any remaining leukocytes.

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