adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a dark, dingy basement
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He ate lunch in a dingy little cafe next to the station.
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The room was damp and dingy .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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However long she had been there, the whole stretch was a dingy aching trail of work and beatings.
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Normally Roberto shunned the low-class and dingy .
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Political consultants used to be little-known operatives working in dingy offices trying to elect better-known candidates.
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The girl felt a call coming like a flaming arrow across the dingy coffee bar.
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The newsagent stood next to the bookmakers in a parade of dingy shops.
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The room told me nothing. just a bare, impersonal space in a cheap, dingy hotel.
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Through the dingy gloom of this motionless train, I catch a first glimpse of my fellow travellers.