Definition of grotty

grotty

• Cheap, fifth-rate, nasty, unpleasant.

  It was a really grotty little convenience store.

  Last edited on May 11 2002. Submitted by Alan P. from Ottawa, ON, Canada on May 11 2002.

adjective

• extremely distasteful, low, twisted, monstrous. from the word 'grotesque'. use by George Harrison in the Beatles movie "A Hard Day's Night."

  That pub crawl in 1998 was as grotty as anything I've ever done.

  Last edited on May 29 2008. Submitted by Harold Z. from Pleasanton, CA, USA on May 29 2008.

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