as in dinge
the state or quality of being dirty
she was appalled by the dinginess of the curtains that came with the apartment and took them all down to be cleaned
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as in filthy
not clean
the bed sheets were pretty dingy so we threw them in the laundry pile
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Recent Examples of dinginess
Madeline Fitzgerald, Quartz, 9 Apr. 2025
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
And is outward only dingy wrapper on the real?
—Laura Kolbe, The New York Review of Books, 20 Mar. 2025
Basketball was so unimportant and the school was so chintzy that the athletic director, who also was the head football coach, made Sloan pay $107 out of his own pocket to have carpet installed in his dingy office.
—Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2025
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Adjective
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
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
And is outward only dingy wrapper on the real?
—Laura Kolbe, The New York Review of Books, 20 Mar. 2025
Basketball was so unimportant and the school was so chintzy that the athletic director, who also was the head football coach, made Sloan pay $107 out of his own pocket to have carpet installed in his dingy office.
—Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dinginess
Noun
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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
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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
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The new house is now disgustingly filthy and filled with trash and the smell of cat urine.—
Jeanne Phillips,
Mercury News,
29 Apr. 2025
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The common areas of the building have been filthy, too: trash all around the grounds and dirty stairwells.—
Chris Higgins,
Kansas City Star,
21 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Down a dusty street in Jereif West, Fatima Bahlawi, 20 months old, lay wailing in her mother’s arms, waving limbs that were thin as sticks.—
Declan Walsh,
New York Times,
19 Apr. 2025
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Seen from there, the sandstone pylons of Luxor’s temple rose to an open sky, eternally patient in the dusty, pearlescent light.—
Chris Wallace,
Travel + Leisure,
19 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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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
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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
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The two groups meet on a muddy basketball court, and fight.—
Kayti Burt,
Time,
26 Apr. 2025
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She’s worn her pair over muddy trails, through waterfalls, and more.—
Sara Coughlin,
SELF,
24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Tom Hardy stars in the neo-noir crime thriller as a corrupt detective named Walker, who shoots, punches, and drop-kicks his way through an entire criminal underworld to rescue the estranged son of dirty politician Lawrence Beaumont (Forest Whitaker).—
Mike Miller,
EW.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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Nearly every dish/pan in the place was dirty multiple times a day.—
Michael Nied,
People.com,
25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Indeed, hung on the walls are vintage Italian posters and the floor is composed of alternating rust, black, and white tiles; walls are painted with a faint green Venetian plaster.—
Elise Taylor,
Vogue,
2 May 2025
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The antibody provided mice with full protection against five snakes - the black mamba and a mix of cobras.—
Ari Daniel,
NPR,
2 May 2025
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“Dinginess.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dinginess. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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