disapproving卑鄙的，可鄙的 If you describe an activity or someone's behaviour as grubby, you do not think that it is honest, fair, or acceptable.
She sees the business of making money as just grubby opportunism. 在她眼中，赚钱的生意只不过是可鄙的投机行为而已。
He doesn't want this story to get into the grubby hands of the tabloid press (= to be obtained by newspapers that are not honest and fair). 他不想让这件事情登到那些卑鄙下流的小报上去。