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Definition of grubby : 1. Any species of Cottus; a sculpin.
2. Dirty; unclean.

Synonyms:

mean, grim, befouled, pitiable, pitiful, lame, dreary, salacious, deceitful, stained, muddied, ratty, cheap, besmirched, fraudulent, unscrupulous, untruthful, gloomy, scabby, sullied, lewd, begrimed, despicable, cunning, scummy, clean, lousy, raunchy, drear, drab, dark, soiled, sorry, uncleanly, blackened, devious, dismal, blue, bemired, Myxocephalus Aenaeus, disconsolate, corrupt, black, unprincipled, nasty, paltry, dubious, draggled, deplorable, cruddy, bedraggled, smudged, scurvy, grotty, dishonest, sneaking, wretched

messy, contaminated, unhygienic

icky, septic, filthy, fetid, scatological, defiled, muddy, foul, mucky, odious, unclean, shabby, sordid, grungy, insalubrious, impure, squalid, grimy, unhygenic, smutty, scruffy, untidy, festering, dusty, disgusting, sloppy, putrid, dirty, unsanitary, infectious, crummy, slovenly, murky, offensive, obscene, toxic, dingy

Usage examples:

• " Grubby is a great worker. - "The-Burgess-Animal-Book-for-Children", Burgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo).
• It was the boy, and he was running up and down wringing his 'ands and crying like a wild thing, and, instead o' running away as soon as 'e saw me, he rushed right up to me and threw 'is grubby little paws round my neck. - "Ship's Company, The Entire Collection", W.W. Jacobs.
• A grubby little brute he was, I recollect. - "Right Ho, Jeeves", P. G. Wodehouse.