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gritty

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English grit
English -y
English gritty

    From grit + -y.

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    gritty (comparative grittier, superlative grittiest)

    1. Containing sand or grit; consisting of grit; caused by grit; full of hard particles.
      • 1949 June 8, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four‎[1], London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC, Part I, Chapter I:
        Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him.
    2. Spirited; resolute; unyielding.
      That goth woman is very gritty.
      • 1944, Emily Carr, “Poison”, in The House of All Sorts‎[2]:
        The runt was the grittiest pup of all; for days he writhed out of one convulsion into the next—calmed from one only to go through it all over again.
    3. (film, literature) Intense and starkly realistic; depicting harsh reality, especially violence.

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