(1) People around, young people in general can see what engineering is and the fact that it is no longer a mucky, oily, grimy place to work but it is a light, airy, clean environment," he said.
(2) In the flesh, though, he's more Bruce Forsyth than Bruce Willis: sweet-eyed, gleaming-teethed, with a keen ear for innuendo and a frankly mucky chuckle.
(3) Then, the water had been clear and clean, not mucky as it is now full of floating debris and sometimes choked with weeds.
(4) I always hear heartier laughs, the guttural kind and the foghorn ones, mucky-dinnerlady-type laughs.
(5) 'I always hear heartier laughs up north, the guttural kind and the foghorn ones, mucky-dinnerlady-type laughs' … Lucy Beaumont.
(6) Some of it is even shot in the participants' own kitchens, so there's an awful lot of clutter and mucky sponges you really don't need to see.
(7) Let's assume, entirely hypothetically, that someone steals a laptop containing mucky candid photographs of Rodney Bewes and tries to flog them to the tabloids.
(8) Who knows where tourism tourism will stand, once this mucky debate is over?)
(9) Carol Roe, Dhu’s grandmother, felt the lump as well, and said it was “very mucky, like dried blood”.
(10) Gore then embarked on a crusade against all things mucky in pop, founding the Parents Music Resource in 1985, the pressure group whose lobbying resulted in warning stickers plastered on the front of offending CDs.
(11) I've come to talk to her about her latest collection, Memorial , and she picks me up from Totnes station, a calm and formal figure in a singularly mucky blue car.
(12) So we seem to be back to the era of the "arty European film" being code for "a bit mucky".
(13) We have ancient, mucky trains; frequent breakdowns; no possibility of a direct train to Glasgow or Bristol.
(14) This is largely due to what she wears before the action kicks in and she gets all mucky trying to save people from dinosaurs.
(15) This week’s cause for irritability is the stupidity of both the pro-privatisation lobby (the government and red-necked Conservatives, who want to privatise everything that moves) and the anti-privatisationists (the “keep your mucky capitalist hands off our perfect NHS” ranters).
(16) Imagine surviving napalm burns to a third of your body, when most victims with even 10% perish, and getting to the age of 53 without realising that you’d been involved in a mucky snap all along.
(17) For now, at least, it's a relaxing, albeit mucky, attraction for visitors to Cartagena on the Caribbean coast.
Yucky
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) However ugly it looks and however yucky it is when you tread on it, chewing sugar-free gum may be positively good for you.
(2) No phone line, no bathroom generally, coal heating only from huge tiled heaters in the corner of each room (and the yucky shitty yellow ones, not the lovely ornate versions you see in palaces).