grubby

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It is this spirit of grubby compromise, not lofty idealism, that will determine the future of the euro.
决定欧元未来的正是这种卑鄙的妥协态度，而不是高尚的理想主义。
At the heart of their argument is the belief in a grubby bargain between Asian savers and American consumers.
他们争论的核心在于相信亚洲的储蓄者和美洲的消费者之间肮脏的交易.
The technology is not inherently frugal or green. It can be used to deliver not just clean renewable energy more efficiently, but also the grubby coal-fired sort.
技术并非内在的就是节约和环保的，它不仅可以被用于更有效的传输清洁的可再生的能源，对于肮脏的燃煤火力发电也是一样。

From such heights you can no longer see what's happening in the grubby little markets below.
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En route to the predictably sentimental conclusion, the horror of base emotions and grubby lives prevails.
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Beneath the rhetoric, the Clinton administration's approach has reflected more grubby deal-making than grand theorising.
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A grubby person or object is rather dirty.
If you call an activity or someone's behaviour grubby, you mean that it is not completely honest or respectable.