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So while the action took place in what looked like a grubbier corner of the old Paradise Circus (but with more cartoon animal heads), the action glittered with lurid, eye-popping colour.

Someone more charitable might describe this as 'paying homage', though I suspect the studio had grubbier motivations.

Pictures posted by one of Katie's mates shows the kitchen looking grubbier than ever.

They were also a lot grubbier, but that also is to be expected.

Robert Pattinson may be famous for playing a vampire in the Twilight series, but he seems a lot more predatory and a lot less healthy in Good Time: you can almost smell the sweat dripping from his gaunt, pasty, pop-eyed hustler as he cheats and robs his way around the grubbier corners of New York.

science park like something genius, lunatic and a A symbol of greed and folly, it looks down forlornly on the grubbier hotels and bars still surviving as long as enough ex-pats patronise them.

But it's a comedy of course with a dark and troubling heart; an undercurrent of institutional anti-Semitism as wide as the Grand Canal, with every uttered, accumulated 'Jew' making the viewer feel a little tenser and sicker and grubbier.

The Telegraph called it memorably seedy; The Guardian, comparing him with Jonathan Pryce who originated the role, said his Engineer was an even grubbier, sleazier figure who is the victim of both his background and pathetic fantasies; and media hailed his diminutive presence with a slithery, sleazy command that brings home the sardonic second-act showstopper, 'The American Dream.'

I KNOW you're busy people, so you may have missed the slight kerfuffle that took place in one of the grubbier outposts of TV Land last Thursday.

But a new survey on kitchen hygiene paints a grubbier picture.

t's one of the grubbier tricks of the trade but it can be very effective.