grimed
Coated with soot
Grimed is the past tense of grime, meaning to make dirty with ingrained filth or soot.
Something grimed is coated with the kind of dark, stubborn dirt that accumulates over time rather than from a single incident: His hands were grimed from years of work in the engine shop.
The word suggests embedded rather than surface-level dirtiness.
Made morally unclean
- besmirchedMade morally dirty
- taintedContaminated, made impure
- defiledMade foul or impure
- corruptedMade impure or dishonest
degraded · dishonored · disgraced · debased · smirched · stained · blackened · blemished
sullied
Made morally unclean
- besmirchedMade morally dirty
- taintedContaminated, made impure
- defiledMade foul or impure
corrupted · degraded · dishonored · disgraced · debased · smirched · stained · blackened · blemished · tarnished
filthy
Thoroughly unclean
muddy · sooty · greasy · grungy · dingy · caked · encrusted · smeared · dusty · grubby
blotched
Marked with irregular spots
- discoloredChanged from original hue
- spottedSeen or patterned
- smearedSpread carelessly across
blemished · mottled · flecked · speckled · streaked · marked · splotched · darkened · marred
worn
Damaged by use
dulled · faded · pitted · eroded · tarnished · aged · patinated · time-worn
- dirt and grime
- grime covered
- industrial grimePollution from manufacturing
grimy, grime, grimiest, griminess, begrimed, grimier, degrime