dingy

adjective

din·gy | \ ˈdin-jē

dingier; dingiest

Definition of dingy

1 : dirty, unclean dingy fingernails

2 : shabby, squalid a dingy hotel room

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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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Some lecture halls are dingy and don’t seem to have been updated much since the 1950s, when they were built from Germany’s post-World War II rubble. — Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, "Bernie Sanders and other Democrats are embracing free college. Europe shows there’s a cost.," 25 June 2019 Sino said the clinic, a dingy concrete structure with few facilities, sees around four such children a day, mostly babies whose mothers don’t eat enough to produce milk. — Washington Post, "New suffering for the children of the ISIS caliphate as hunger and sickness spread," 20 June 2019 The ship’s cramped, dingy, 6-by-60 meters overflow with rumor, a macho posturing, and a toxic ideology of heroism. — Adrian Daub, The New Republic, "Hulu’s Das Boot Gets Lost at Sea," 19 June 2019 These dingy apartments were on the most coveted plots of city real estate, and as China urbanized, their value rocketed. — Gwynn Guilford, Quartz, "China’s debt disease might wreck its uncrashable housing market," 11 June 2019 In this terrible reboot, there’s no local flavor, or any flavor. Thompson’s Agent M gets on an NYC subway car — and the familiar dingy cabin transforms into a luxury lounge with comfy seating. — Darren Franich, EW.com, "Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson reunite for eerily bland Men in Black: International: EW review," 12 June 2019 There’s nothing like clutter to make a room feel cramped and dingy. — Brigitt Earley, Good Housekeeping, "18 Pieces from Walmart’s New MoDRN Collection That’ll Upgrade Every Room in Your Home," 20 May 2019 Or the mob of fans lighting flares inside a dingy gym. — Ben Cohen, WSJ, "The Greek Mythology of the NBA’s Superstar," 2 Apr. 2019 These machines can help clean up dingy arms and headrests on your furniture, not to mention spots on carpets, rugs, and car interiors. — Carolyn Forte, Good Housekeeping, "How to Clean a Couch Like a Pro," 29 Mar. 2019

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