gritty
- consisting of, containing, or resembling grit; sandy.
- resolute and courageous; plucky.
Origin of gritty
Examples from the Web for grittiness
Contemporary Examples of grittiness
This is action on a grand scale that, despite its grittiness and naturalism, boasts very high production values.
“Grittiness is what differentiated it in from the beginning,” Henderson said.
As with the teen drama Skins, it was that British grittiness that was part of the allure to millions of teenage viewers.
British Raunchfest ‘The Inbetweeners Movie’ Tries to Make Its Mark in AmericaKevin Fallon
September 8, 2012
Historical Examples of grittiness
A greyish-yellow powder free from grittiness, and with no smell of sulphuretted hydrogen.
Cooley's Practical Receipts, Volume IIArnold Cooley
Very often the texture of pear-flesh is marred by grittiness to which some varieties are much more subject than others.
The Pears of New YorkU. P. Hedrick
The flesh is juicy, tender, vinous, free from grittiness and seldom rots at the core.
The Pears of New YorkU. P. Hedrick
For suddenly he was surprised by a most disagreeable sense of grittiness, and then a keen stab in the roof of his month.
Its grittiness would hurt the newborn weaklings, its dryness would absorb the moisture indispensable to their movements.
The Life of the FlyJ. Henri Fabre
gritty
- courageous; hardy; resolute
- of, like, or containing grit