grotty in a sentence

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1. Example from spelling differences shows : barmy, quin, grotty, and haulier are incorrectly British spellings, grody, filet, and boogeyman are invalid American spellings, and the talk ) 07 : 23, 13 January 2008 ( UTC)
2. After all, to a tugboat master slogging away in London's grotty East End in the 1950s, the prospect of a career as a screen actor was as remote as the fanciful love stories " those people " portrayed on the screen.
3. At first, we think we're going to be on the receiving end of a set-up _ mom as dotty, grotty joke _ as the returnee to Sausalito from LA rebels when his mom tries to serve him some very old frozen food.
4. It started in New York's grotty Silicon Alley, where two entrepreneurs had the idea of delivering essential life supplies _ food, video games, and toiletries ( read : condoms ) _ to twentysomething Web slaves who worked more or less around the clock.
5. So you envisage a couple of grotty years and could see the credit for pulling the economy back up to solid growth being attributed to Bush tax cuts and, more generally, his pro-business climate, both of which policies would be active by 2002.
6. But the production, which is directed and designed by Lee Simpson and Julian Crouch, also spends a lot of time in McDermott's London apartment, where alarming things like half-eaten toffees of unknown origin materialize under grotty sofas and door keys are always mysteriously missing.
7. All I use is Firefox and IE . I can add that having visited many countries from China and Oz to Sri Lanka and the States over a number of years ( entering some of the most grotty internet cafes ), I have never had a problem watching Java video.
8. And when you enter the grotty concrete hovel where Suheil Natour holds forth, you can see how enormous is the chasm that divides CNN from reality, which separates " peace hopes " from peace _ which makes Ehud Barak's election a mere footnote to catastrophe for the Palestinians.
9. I've never heard " scody " or " grody " used in the UK, but the British equivalent seems to be " grotty " . ( There used to be a cheap cafe near where I lived in London called El Grotto, but the final O had fallen off the sign.
10. :I don't know if this strictly counts as a'position'- but I doubt that people thought of donkey punching each other for kicks until other people started making grotty jokes about donkey punching . . .-- talk ) 01 : 28, 28 February 2008 ( UTC)