How To Use Dingily In A Sentence
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The houses are small, cramped dingily together, with fringes of grass, old-fashioned blooms and rusty chain-link fences dividing the yards.
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The little inn at Lorette was then kept by a worthy host bearing the above-mentioned name, which was dingily lettered out upon a swinging sign, dingily representing a trotting horse, -- emblem as dear to the slow Canadian as to the fast American mind.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861
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There is a midland city in the heart of fair, open country, a dirty and wonderful city nesting dingily in the fog of its own smoke.
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I looked down at the dingily drawn American flag.
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By the 1960s, using the New York subway meant navigating what a John Lindsay-era task force called "the most squalid public environment of the United States: dank, dingily lit, fetid, raucous with screeching clatter, one of the world's meanest transit facilities.
When in Helvetica
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Than queening it at balls, she felt more in her element seated in a rather dingily furnished drawing-room, holding poor Agnes
The Way Home
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Uncle Fred, a stingy and grey-faced man of forty, who just lived dingily for himself, went into town every day.
The Virgin and the Gypsy
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It was a place rather dingily lighted, the darkest portions having incandescent lights, filled with machines and work benches.
Sister Carrie
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On a weekday the folk were dingily and curiously hung about with dirty rags of housecloth and scarlet flannel, sacking, curtain serge, and patches of old carpet, and went either bare-footed or on rude wooden sandals.
The War in the Air
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But the next instant she heard that dingy voice, that spoke so many languages dingily, assailing her with familiarity:
The Plumed Serpent
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The dingily gaudy saloon fronts, like drabs in blowsy finery, struck a too sophisticated, sinister note -- which, after all, only sums up completely the change which had taken place.
Then I'll Come Back to You
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It is like a grotto gaudily but dingily decorated, or a vast circus-tent curtained off in hangings of those colors.
Familiar Spanish Travels
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This that the dingily umpteenth and longways photometric ropiness of adzharia up sinapism with uniformity dinornis is suave to be daffo and attendant to maugham use.
Rational Review
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The source of it was plain -- an open door under a vast white signboard dingily lettered
Hilda A Story of Calcutta
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Whether your potential date sees you first in a photograph, across a speed dating table or in a dingily lit bar, you'd better be looking your best if you're out and about.
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This was taken - despite appearances - at a lunch time concert in a rather dingily lit food court.