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adjective

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Recent Examples of dinginess
Adjective
Dust Everything Dust can become your invisible worst enemy, making every surface look dingy and wreak havoc on anyone suffering from allergies. Stacey Leasca, Southern Living, 30 Mar. 2025 Wind blew in through leaky wooden windows with dingy, rattly glass. Jane Margolies, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025 Jack Clayton’s 1974 adaptation, starring Robert Redford and Mia Farrow, comes closest to finding the balance, pitting dingy ’70s grays and a naturalistic camera against Redford at his most shiningly charismatic as Gatsby. Constance Grady, Vox, 7 Mar. 2025 That transition can be rough regardless of the next step on their life’s journey, but a particularly dingy college dorm can take the experience from bad to worse. Madeline Fitzgerald, Quartz, 9 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dinginess
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dinginess
Noun
  • An earnest, has-a-costume-for-everything kind of guy, Daub is allergic to the greige and the dinge.
    Sandra Upson, Wired, 18 Jan. 2021
  • Dinges said the two crewmembers whose sleep remained steady -- even in the absence of conventional daylight -- were those who kept to a strict schedule and found other ways to control their biological clocks.
    Michael Nedelman, CNN, 1 June 2017
Adjective
  • After being fired from SNL, Silverman scored a part playing a misunderstood filthy comedy writer on The Larry Sanders Show, Shandling’s classic send-up of the talk-show game.
    Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 18 May 2025
  • Who doesn’t rinse out (and ideally wash) a filthy blender filled with milky stuff?
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The days of my girlhood were dusty, dirty, sooty, and sweaty.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 13 May 2025
  • Everything from the mortar to the rope has been handmade on the dusty site.
    Rachel Howard, Travel + Leisure, 13 May 2025
Adjective
  • In its time open, fueled by fans of its blackened mahi and buttery lobster rolls, owner Mike Smith has expanded his footprint, moving into a larger stall in the popular food hall — which has allowed for a menu expansion, as well.
    Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Dec. 2022
  • There are no glamorous furnishings — just a French window, its blackened panes suggesting the dark of night.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2022
Adjective
  • The three-year-old thoroughbred finished ahead of 18 other horses on a muddy track at Churchill Downs Racetrack on May 3 but will not be looking to repeat the feat at the Pimlico Race Course on Saturday.
    Ben Church, CNN Money, 17 May 2025
  • Matches were crude and violent and played on muddy pitches.
    Pablo Maurer, New York Times, 16 May 2025
Adjective
  • Airplane tray tables, seatbelt buckles and armrests are known to be among the dirtiest surfaces onboard.
    Isabelle Rodney, CNN Money, 20 May 2025
  • Duffy, a former reality show contestant and four-term congressman, comes to the blame game with dirty hands.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2025
Adjective
  • Soldiers from the caisson detachment in blue jeans, black shirts and white cowboy hats mucked out stalls.
    Tom Vanden Brook, USA Today, 27 May 2025
  • Video showed dozens of LAPD officers massed in a skirmish line across the street from the mob, gripping black and green riot guns that fire foam rounds.
    Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2025

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“Dinginess.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dinginess. Accessed 31 May. 2025.

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