dingier; dingiest
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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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The dingy, important, inescapable sludge of real life flooded back in.
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Raven Smith, Vogue, 3 July 2024
Next door there was a very dingy hotel to rent by the hour.
—Nicole Acheampong, New York Times, 26 June 2024
Or can one side be played as a sucker during a game of three-card monte on the sidewalk outside the dingy bus terminal?
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 11 Feb. 2024
The Mercat de Sant Antoni, one of 39 produce markets in the city, was in chronic decline, with just a fraction of its dingy stalls still up and running.
—Paul Richardson, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Jan. 2023
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Raven Smith, Vogue, 3 July 2024
Next door there was a very dingy hotel to rent by the hour.
—Nicole Acheampong, New York Times, 26 June 2024
Or can one side be played as a sucker during a game of three-card monte on the sidewalk outside the dingy bus terminal?
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 11 Feb. 2024
The Mercat de Sant Antoni, one of 39 produce markets in the city, was in chronic decline, with just a fraction of its dingy stalls still up and running.
—Paul Richardson, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Jan. 2023
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“Dingy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dingy. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
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