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dingy
[ din-jee ]
adjective
- of a dark, dull, or dirty color or aspect; lacking brightness or freshness.
- shabby; dismal.
dingy
/ ˈɪԻɪ /
adjective
- lacking light or brightness; drab
- dirty; discoloured
Derived Forms
- ˈ徱Բ, adverb
- ˈ徱ԲԱ, noun
Other Word Forms
- 徱g· adverb
- 徱g·Ա noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of dingy1
Word History and Origins
Origin of dingy1
Example Sentences
In the end, she found a small door into a block of flats and says she was told to wait in a "dingy little hallway" for about half an hour.
But the chilling truth of what they endured in a dingy ground floor flat remained a secret until the young girl's hysterical reaction on 21 March 2020.
But there’s something dingy and gross, like mottled drifts of old snow, about the overweening influence of Trump’s courtiers and their grubbing relationship with a president so obviously enamored of money and flattery.
They were described as being "so dingy and dark that, even in broad day, they had to be lighted up by artificial means".
They and others without access to willing doctors perished at a horrifying rate from self-abortions or operations performed in “dark, dingy apartments,” the documentary reports,
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