dingy

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Now that dingy mall is unrecognizable and filled to the brim.

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thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen"

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adjective

thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen"

adjective

(of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; "dirty" is often used in combination; "a dirty (or dingy) white"; "the muddied grey of the sea"; "muddy colors"; "dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair"

adjective

causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"

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Core meanings and parts of speech for dingy.

adjective

thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen"

See also: begrimed, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy

adjective

Example sentences

Now that dingy mall is unrecognizable and filled to the brim.

I've taken work in dingy Victorian offices so cold that I've had to program through thick gloves.

I showed up at the address and it was a small dingy old building and most of the employees seemed to be 55+ year-old women.

All the buildings looked just a tad dingy, even the glass boxes over at the European Commission.

I don't know how much of this is true but he was telling me that some dingy studio apartments have 10-15 people in line to sign contract.

But they did everything overnight and didn't replace the dingy old carpets that were concealed by the racks.

This leads to dingy doctors signing medical forms for patients they have little interaction with, which makes the law seem abused.

"I don't like the city much at all, but where else can a fresh CS undergrad fetch a $100K+ offer without paying $2K a month for a dingy studio apartment?

We were served dingy water reclaimed from the train radiator and a pigeon what had flown against a window and died, and told to fend for ourselves.

Here's the hippie burner neighborhood, and here's the spanish hipster neighborhood, and here's the rich white boating neighborhood, and here's the dingy chinese black market neighborhood, and here's the financial district complete with skyscrapers and shops that close at 6pm. It's like a dirty spicy version of DC.

It asks your permission to access pretty much everything on your profile and when you finally accept it cuts to a fullscreen, high production video of an incredibly creepy actor on a computer in a really dingy room.

The people who actually work the port asked that they not disrupt the port, but in the end these dreadlocked, shiftless complainers cost those longshoremen a day in wages -- Viva El Proletariado!What we have today is a group of young, electively poor white kids who are upset that the price of unheated lofts and dingy Victorians are being driven up by people who have the means and motivation to actually own and improve them.