Sentence example with the word 'dingy'

dingy

Quaker-colored, cheerless, dilapidated, etiolated, gray-black, grizzly, mealy, pearl, silvery, somber, uncolored

Definition adj. thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot

Last update: July 10, 2015


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I drove through dingy streets of Mumbai.   [adjective]

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I tracked him down to a dingy street in Soho.   [adjective]

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"Certainly I would rather live in an airy house with colonnades than in our dingy cavern, but building would never be in my way."   [adjective]

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The furniture was very simple, consisting of a large writing-table, a few high-backed chairs, and the Cardinal's own easy-chair, covered with dingy leather and well worn by use.   [adjective]

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With the exception of Albany and one or two other cities the hotels are old, dingy, and dirty.   [adjective]

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A woman's voice behind the dingy curtain.   [adjective]

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Phlegmy coughs shook the air of the bookshop, bulging out the dingy curtains.   [adjective]

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He bent to make a bundle of the other books, hugged them against his unbuttoned waistcoat and bore them off behind the dingy curtain.   [adjective]

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At Newcomen bridge Father Conmee stepped into an outward bound tram for he disliked to traverse on foot the dingy way past Mud Island.   [adjective]

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The room looked cheerless and dingy to Edna as she entered.   [adjective]

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Making his day's stations, the dingy printingcase, his three taverns, the Montmartre lair he sleeps short night in, rue de la Goutte-d'Or, damascened with flyblown faces of the gone.'   [adjective]

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