dingier; dingiest
Examples of dingy in a Sentence
He's been staying in a dingy motel.
the bed sheets were pretty dingy so we threw them in the laundry pile
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This is a different shade of minimalism for Marci, harkening to the gutter ’90s-era beatmaking represented by the dingy floppy disk on the album cover.
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Dylan Green, Pitchfork, 28 Jan. 2026
There’s a lot of satisfaction to be found in restoring a dingy white shirt to its near-original glory.
—Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 28 Jan. 2026
The iron in it will turn white cars a dingy yellow over time.
—Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
Letts’s play is a sordid, spiky creature, a two-hour descent into a pit of paranoia within the dingy walls of an Oklahoma motel room.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026
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Dylan Green, Pitchfork, 28 Jan. 2026
There’s a lot of satisfaction to be found in restoring a dingy white shirt to its near-original glory.
—Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 28 Jan. 2026
The iron in it will turn white cars a dingy yellow over time.
—Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
Letts’s play is a sordid, spiky creature, a two-hour descent into a pit of paranoia within the dingy walls of an Oklahoma motel room.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for dingy
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“Dingy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dingy. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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