How To Use Dingy In A Sentence
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So we plunge into its dingy maze with a hopeful and daring sensation of truantry.
Times, Sunday Times
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The coffin was palled with a square of rusty black velvet, whence all the pile had long been worn, and which the soaking rain now helped age to embrown and make flabby; a standard cross was borne by an ecclesiastical official, who had on a quadrangular cap surmounted by a centre tuft; two priests followed, sheltered by umbrellas, their sacerdotal garments dabbled and draggled with mud, and showing thick-shod feet beneath the dingy serge and lawn that flapped above them, as they came along at a smart pace, suggestive of anything but solemnity.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866
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Who wants to go to a dingy playing room to get crushed in silence when you can go to the pub and talk to your friends.
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Its hangings, the curtains, the room's upholstery were the dingy colour of the lees of wine.
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I haven't forgotten my roots in Glasgow, with the dingy tenements and the grass full of dog dirt, and there are parts of Middlesbrough which look as if they belong to the Dark Ages.
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Yet despite all this there was an air of conservation, the odd glimpse of the Old World in a narrow dingy lane where a dray horse shifted his weight from one hock to the other, blinking lazy lashes above the nosebag containing his lunch.
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Her attempts had led her not to a position on board a ship, but to this dirty, dingy waiting job.
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Security officers sit in a dingy room in front of banks of monitors scrutinising X-ray after X-ray of baggage bound for the aircraft hold.
Times, Sunday Times
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The glass shard of a building makes the dingy three-and five-story buildings next door seem dingier, and the seamy building boasting adult videos and scantily-clad mannequins even seamier.
A Sliver Shines Above Midtown
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There are exposed ducts and dingy, rather than atmospheric, lighting.
Times, Sunday Times
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You can pay 130 for a dingy room with a view of an air-conditioning shaft.
Times, Sunday Times
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I had the choice of a dingy subway leading south towards the delights of the town centre or a short walk to the railway station and a fast exit.
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The reserve is also home to a large number of butterfly species including green hairsteak, dingy skipper and dark green fritillary.
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We stopped at the main desk of the dingy motel, one my mother would not have been happy with, and waited while Jimmy registered and checked us in.
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Advocate example official gives orders when at attention, disclosure a particularly dingy soldier is standing slouchingly.
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An elderly man sat in a dingy upholstered chair in the front lobby, where he had probably been sitting for the past 30 years.
Times, Sunday Times
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His books lack the extempore felicities and the reflected fellow-feeling which lent a charm to his spoken sermons; and on the table-land of his controversial treatises, sentence follows sentence like a file of ironsides, in buff and rusty steel, a sturdy procession, but a dingy uniform; and it is only here and there where a son of Anak has burst his rags, that you glimpse a thought of uncommon stature or wonderful proportions.
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852
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There is a nervous hush in the dingy dealing rooms of Shanghai's retail stockbrokers as share prices on the display boards turn red.
Times, Sunday Times
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The room is dingy, the floor dirty, mashed by a thousand human feet.
Times, Sunday Times
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The hour-and-a-half long film is set in the claustrophobic confines of a dingy hotel room.
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It can fit in the boot of an ordinary car, can be used as a surf board, a rowing dinghy, a windsurfer, a sailing dingy, can be towed behind a power boat or used as a beach boat for children (under supervision, of course) and costs next to nothing.
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There are exposed ducts and dingy, rather than atmospheric, lighting.
Times, Sunday Times
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Starring Linda Griffiths as Ripples, a boozing floozy with a weak spot for a pimp who throws her out, The Blues is darkly comical as it plays out the desperation and dreams of four characters in a dingy New York bar.
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The dark and dingy rooms have just one little room up a stairway, which served as a toilet and bath.
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In the most dark and dingy quarters of the city, the drawing-room window resembles frequently a bank of flowers; every spot capable of vegetation has its grassplot and flower-bed; and every square its mimic park, laid out with picturesque taste, and gleaming with refreshing verdure.
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
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For most people, jazz means some guy playing swing music in a little dingy club.
Times, Sunday Times
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The hour-and-a-half long film is set in the claustrophobic confines of a dingy hotel room.
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One of my policies is to avoid motels where you need to communicate with the clerk through a slot in dingy bulletproof glass.
Motel Paradiso
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July 21st, 2006 at 12: 36 pm ct says: dingy harry is such a moron
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Skerryvore, but one oval nodule of black-trap, sparsely bedabbled with an inconspicuous fucus, and alive in every crevice with a dingy insect between a slater and a bug.
Memories and Portraits
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Dewey drinks hard, sleeps late, plays gigs in dingy clubs and, most importantly, loves to rock.
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Albert, vowed not to change her linen till Ostend was taken; this siege, unluckily for her comfort, lasted three years; and the supposed colour of the archduchess's linen gave rise to a fashionable colour, hence called _l'Isabeau_, or the Isabella; a kind of whitish-yellow-dingy.
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
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I was apparently indoors, though the floor was dingy and muddy and covered in gritty sand.
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You can get the best of Middle Eastern, especially Egyptian, spices and spice mixes in the dingy shops where you can manage with Hindi.
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He'd seen her often in the past weeks: in the morning as he stropped his razor, in the evening as he wrung dingy water from his satin gloves.
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She had never been to a place like that before - a fifth floor walk-up along a dingy staircase, a room papered in heavy metal posters.
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The dark and dingy space came alive from all the extra light.
Times, Sunday Times
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Neon everywhere, billboards as far as the eye could see, concrete apartment blocks dingy with pollution.
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For most people, jazz means some guy playing swing music in a little dingy club.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the way back I passed an old man riding a motorcycle, wearing a blue plaid lungi, dingy white shirt, and a tall red fez with a black tassel.
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You can pay 130 for a dingy room with a view of an air-conditioning shaft.
Times, Sunday Times
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An older me should have taken a younger me aside years ago and had a stern few words in a dark corner of a dingy bar.
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So when the people go all wing-dingy fact-checky, whiny on him, you can be pretty sure he has gotten to the core of some issue that just galls 'em.
Hominid Views
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We were in the small, dingy office, paint peeling off the walls and the ancient computer monotonously humming.
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What if your place of work is not a dingy workstation in a block of concrete but a floating sun-drenched five-star hotel heading for Alaska or Bermuda?
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There is a nervous hush in the dingy dealing rooms of Shanghai's retail stockbrokers as share prices on the display boards turn red.
Times, Sunday Times
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An elderly man sat in a dingy upholstered chair in the front lobby, where he had probably been sitting for the past 30 years.
Times, Sunday Times
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Or laws that banish her and her ilk from public places to the dingy sidewalk.
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To think this grand tale starts off in a dingy little mailroom is noteworthy to me, because the story sweeps through so many settings of ever-growing grandeur, you have to really appreciate the scope of it all.
Fave Five: Horror Novels
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You want your house to look light and bright, not dark and dingy.
The Sun
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I bought this rug especially for the "cleanable" factor (I have a dog and it gets high traffic), and it's basically so dingy after 6 months that I'm looking to replace it.
Apartment Therapy Main
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The house looked darker, the roof was rustier, the heavy, iron-bound door into the shop, which was painted green, was covered with cracks, or, as the deaf man expressed it, “blisters”; and old Tsybukin seemed to have grown dingy, too.
The Witch, and other stories
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Following her divorce, a mother has to relocate with her daughter to a dingy apartment block with a worrying stain on the ceiling.
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Running through plans and counter-plans, he drove me straight to a dingy pub where he began medicating himself with an endless stream of cigarettes and vodka shooters.
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The newsagent stood next to the bookmakers in a parade of dingy shops.
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Maybe we could tell readers that cricket is a game played in trench coats, in dingy offices lit by neon signs blinking through venetian slats.
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Sunlight flooded the previously dingy room, illuminating the slightly discolored spots on the carpet and the ugly brown wallpaper.
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I want to see those great windows again; it's 25 years since I was last there: a dingy neoclassical mansion with two elderly Gore-Booth sisters and a slightly dotty and antique brother showing visitors around.
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Dust was everywhere, the floor was dingy and the once white walls were now a drab gray.
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You want your house to look light and bright, not dark and dingy.
The Sun
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Ah Sing in the swelling of commendable pride, at having outwitted the most notorious highbinder in Chinatown, built him a house that was quite large enough to swing a cat in, and as gorgeous inside as a joss house, and quite as dingy without, with the wisdom of Confucius done in very large characters on very red paper pasted all about the front door.
The Conversion of Ah Lew Sing
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But one was left wondering at the decision to commit time, money and talent to this dingy piece of hokum.
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His prison is in a dingy room, while the other youngsters share a dormitory.
The Sun
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For most people, jazz means some guy playing swing music in a little dingy club.
Times, Sunday Times
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Alec Danfoss, who farmed land not a kilometre from Karsten had placed his children, Jenny and Julia the six year old twins, and their eight year tainted brother Randall, into his dingy and lashed it to the back of his ox cart.
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Reality: One of them, Agnes, who has thin dingy gray hair, lips moist with slobber, and is as tall as she is wide, brayed at me that she and her friends where supposed to meet my grandmother there to play pinochle, but that my grandmother wasn't home yet.
John Shore: Liar, Liar, Pants On Fire
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Inside the boardinghouse across the street Ben slipped a nightshirt, once white with purple stripes, but now dingy and pale from many washings, over Adam's head.
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This is to say that if you leave a dingy in shallow water and the tide goes out, leaving your boat on the sand, you have committed an offence which carries a fine.
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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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From the outset, a dilapidated building - dark, dingy and dangerous - mirrors the standard of care for the agglomerated, forgotten Brazilian criminal underclass.
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He was shaggy and a dirty person, his dingy white shirt full of holes, and jeans full of mud.
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When Kuruvila took over as headmaster, the school in the crowded George Town area was dark and dingy.
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I think the blue wash that old ladies use looks bright white to them, whereas bright white looks like a dingy, muddy yellow.
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He helps me to a dingy building.
Times, Sunday Times
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But this is not a squalid bedsit or dingy warehouse.
The Sun
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The sets and atmosphere are dingy, with performers dressed in jeans and sneakers and leather jackets, and conveying a sassy, modern manner in their characters' persona.
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A mean window with a dingy cretonne curtain, a single bed still made-up with sheets and blankets but with the counterpane pulled taut over the single lumpy pillow; books lining two walls; a small bedside table with a shoddy lamp; a Bible; a cumber - some and gaudily decorated china ashtray bearing an advertisement for beer.
She Closed Her Eyes
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It was an open lawn area bordered by a chain-link fence, with dingy picnic tables and a view of train tracks in the distance.
My Fair Wedding
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Their unbathed bodies were garmented in the meanest of clothes, dingy, dirty, ragged, and sparse.
CHAPTER XXVI
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In the meantime Professor Darlington Ruggles made his way to another part of the city, not far from the river, and met a man in a dingy basement room at the rear of a low doggery.
Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective Or, The Crime of the Midnight Express
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Toting a satchel containing lye soap, a grater, and a red-rubber hose, she visits their dingy apartments, where she administers a toxic abortifacient.
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And for those who live in a dingy basement, good news: it positively relishes the shade.
Times, Sunday Times
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The room had been originally intended for a drawing-room, as was evident from the inevitable white and gold wall-paper and the tarnished gilt beading round the doors and window shutters; the mantelpiece, too, was of white marble, and the gaselier fitted with dingy crystal lustres.
Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers
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Banners prepared by schools will soon go up in Manchester Road, where the scheme brought about the closure of dingy subways underneath the main roads which people said they were afraid to use.
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More wireworms and white grubs have been observed and increased numbers of dingy cutworms, which overwinter here, are likely.
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The prospect of an unappetizing tea, and the dark, dingy hours waiting like cold greens she must eat before bedtime, oppressed her.
DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
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If you look through the history of culture, you will see that ideas tend to come from attic flats, dingy boozers and nightclubs full of freaks.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her hair was a dingy brown colour.
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Their unbathed bodies were garmented in the meanest of clothes, dingy, dirty, ragged, and sparse.
CHAPTER XXVI
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It stood at the top of Newport Street in Old Town, a dingy dark building measuring a modest eight feet square.
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Various dingy display items were tacked up on the beaverboard walls—plastic windshield scrapers, keychains with tiny flashlights on them, and green felt pine trees to make your car smell better.
DO NOT PASS GO
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The idea was to make the title of the record the complete opposite of the cover of the album [where Kemmis is portrayed sitting on an unmade bed in a dingy hotel room].
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As I walked I heard, rising above the normal hubbub of the market, the computer generated sounds of a video arcade - a tiny stall, open to the street, dim and dingy.
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My room was in the basement, but neither dark nor dingy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Neon everywhere, billboards as far as the eye could see, concrete apartment blocks dingy with pollution.
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Hoping to rescue a merger that might hide his financial sins (and hide from reporters), Gregor Antonescu (Langella) retreats to the dingy basement apartment of his estranged son Basil (Adam Driver).
Michael Giltz: Theater: Frank Langella Mans Up For Revival "Man And Boy"
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But this is not a squalid bedsit or dingy warehouse.
The Sun
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It's a dark room, with only a single bare bulb hanging from the ceiling, dingy walls, dark floor.
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Inside were three cameras, seven pairs of binoculars, camouflage paint, seven radios and an inflatable dingy, compressed into something almost the size of a backpack.
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A gang chased him into a dingy block of flats and knifed him to death.
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Rrrr my mattes I hooker up to the front of my dingy and go out to Loch Ness and paddle out and tie my first mate up and throw him over board and use for bait and when Nessy comes up boom there squirts blood and then id get it mounted.
Own Your Own Whale Gun
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It was a poky, little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in enclo - sure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and uncongenial atmosphere.
Sole Music
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A dark, dingy little shop that always smelt faintly of cigarettes and Pine-O-Clean.
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You never spent a week at a time with your parents on endless drives across the continent, in cramped cars, dingy motels or damp caravans?
Feeling loved in Japan
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The markings are large blotches and spots, often forming zones or caps about the larger end, where they seem almost always to be most conspicuous, as they vary in colour from an intense burnt-sienna which is almost black, through a dingy maroon, and again to a dull, somewhat pale reddish brown; here and there individual eggs exhibit a hair-line or two, or a hieroglyphic-like mark, but these are the exceptions.
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
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Personal snapshots from abandoned family albums turn up in all kinds of places, ‘from postcard fairs, to jumble sales, and dingy halls beside arterial roads,’ as he puts it.
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Wood-work dingy, unpainted, gashed, scratched; windows dingy and dim; walls dingy and gray and smoked; everything unhomelike, unattractive, narrow, and rickety.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863
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Security officers sit in a dingy room in front of banks of monitors scrutinising X-ray after X-ray of baggage bound for the aircraft hold.
Times, Sunday Times
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Appearances are deceptive in these restaurants, which look like dingy pubs from the outside.
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I've fallen into a dingy subterranean bar called KGB, lured by the initials and the sign outside depicting a froth-capped beer glass.
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The last thing he remembered was a loud clank against his head… and then waking up in the backseat of a dingy car.
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A standard set of 16 veneers over dingy old teeth, and the homely are transformed with instant white choppers.
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It was a dingy place with a dirty floor and more dust than goods on the shelves.
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A mollusk is a cheap edition {of man} with a suppression of the costlier illustrations, designed for dingy circulation, for shelving in an oyster-bank or among the seaweed.
Errata: The Wordie Blog
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I took my dingy volume by the scroop, and hurled it into the dog-kennel, vowing I hated a good book.
Wuthering Heights
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No sooner are you beyond the dingy streets than all is beauty, pastoralness and romance.
In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"
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dingy linen
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And there was a certain dingy office in a lane-like street that was also a centre in the early eighties.
Canadian Cities of Romance
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The set was rather dingy, and some of the dialogue understandably slurred.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was when I first moved back to London, and I was renting a room in a flatshare in a dingy house in Putney.
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Two musicians share a dingy, leaky basement flat.
Times, Sunday Times
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The hour-and-a-half long film is set in the claustrophobic confines of a dingy hotel room.
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The stereotype of students happy to share squalid, dingy flats is a thing of the past.
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To find it you follow a thin alley and stoop through an ancient wooden door, stepping into a dingy vestibule.
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Sullen (the name Th 'Cap'n blessed Her assailant with) turned down one of the many dingy alleyways and his' enforcers 'shoved the women after him.
Cap'n Dyke, Lesbian Pirate Queen & Rogue Blogger
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This is a world that, despite its cheap furniture, dingy apartments and grubby walls hung with fading pictures, is still full of desires and ideals.
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They are in a rather dingy room with a few Argos inspired design touches and in the presence of two young children.
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While thus speaking, he continued to move along the littered floor of the dingy room, with the undulating restlessness of some wild animal in the confines of its den, and he now went on, in short fragmentary sentences, very slightly linked together, but smoothed, as it were, into harmony by a voice musical and fresh as a sky lark's warble.
A Strange Story — Complete
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But Miss Lisle, with her "great, grave griefful air," was fit to take a leading part in poem or drama, and here was a man worthy to play hero passing her on the staircase of a dingy lodging-house!
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science
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They walked into the musty, dingy, brown-atmosphered house.
Donal Grant, by George MacDonald
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Beyond its dingy platforms, the metal track which contracts into the murk is the road to China, though that is, perhaps, the last place you would guess to be at the end of it.
London River
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The action is set in a dingy, cluttered bedsit, and the cramped space at first seems ideal.
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a dirty (or dingy) white
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Finding no one, she sighed and seated herself at a small table in a dingy corner of the room.
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The dark and dingy space came alive from all the extra light.
Times, Sunday Times
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People whose lives, and those of their parents before them, have been spent in dingy tenements, and whose only garden is a rickety soap-box high up on a fire-escape, share this love, which must have a plant to tend, with those whose gardens cover acres and whose plants have been gathered from all the countries of the world.
A Woman's Hardy Garden
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Quartered in this dingy hatchment commemorative of
Bleak House
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’Why are we so invested in shoving all these young girls and women into the pipeline that is dark and dingy and not very habitable? taken from,
Why we leave
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They are best (color wise) in stained/dingy water.
When can I use a chartruse buzzbait?
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She looked around a dingy and dirty room that contained two stalls, but no other door out.
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I spent years in the lurid squats and dingy bed-sitters of Bristol, then the butter-yellow, peeling Georgian terraces of Brighton.
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Sitting on a natural shelf in the rock was a dingy mirror, and Prudence finger-combed her hair in it before smiling through the redness of her nose and eyes.
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The dark and dingy space came alive from all the extra light.
Times, Sunday Times
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They had befriended him in a hostel and soon took control of his money and dingy bedsit.
The Sun
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He pointed to the pocket of his dingy, mud-caked jean jacket.
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Nevertheless, it is still a significant fact that while many of the butchers 'establishments possess quite an attractive and inviting appearance, on the contrary those devoted to the sale of greengrocery are represented by dingy-looking places, and by a collection of faded vegetables which seem always to be apologising for being on view at all.
The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken
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She did not loathe the shiny "quartered oak" dining-room pieces -- her father's venture in an opulent moment -- nor the dingy pine bedroom sets, nor even the worn "ingrain" carpets, as she did these precious relics of her grandmother's home.
One Woman's Life
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Leisure suit would be funny — but can you imagine dingy sweatpants, hightop sneakers, and aviator sunglasses?
I lovez skotch - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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Dingy sailing is well underway at the club as new sailors complete their training courses and join in the fun.
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Promptly followed the dingy train's short run up the shore of the New Canal, and then its stop athwart St. Charles St.eet, under no roof, amid no throng, without one huzza or cry of welcome, and the prompt dispersal of the outwardly burdenless wanderers, in small knots afoot, up-town, down-town, many of them trying to say over again those last words from the chief hero of their four years 'trial by fire.
Kincaid's Battery
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There was a time when dark, dingy offices with secretaries guarding the doors came with a job in the property business.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is generally about the size of a melon, a little fibrous towards the centre, but everywhere else quite smooth and puddingy, something in consistence between yeast-dumplings and batter-pudding.
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Pember Street, E., is never very cheerful in appearance, not even in mid-spring, when the dingy lilacs in the forecourts of those grimy houses bourgeon and blossom.
Hurricane Island
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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 horn eye-glass was exchanged for one of purest gold, the dingy high-lows for well-waxed Wellingtons, the Paisley fogle for the fabric of the China loom.
Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners)
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I'm talking about a bad comb-over and a dingy old top plate.
MR STARLIGHT
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Her mother, a dingy old dowager, with bad teeth, dowdy gowns, a profusion of artificial flowers, and a strong addiction to tea and knitting, perfectly understood the duties of duennaship, and did propriety by her daughter's side at dinner-table and promenade.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847
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Two musicians share a dingy, leaky basement flat.
Times, Sunday Times
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Get a long sleaved light gray or white shirt and make it look really dingy with brown paint and splatter some fake blood on it while you’re at it.
Somewhat quick and cheap geek costumes for Halloween
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There is a nervous hush in the dingy dealing rooms of Shanghai's retail stockbrokers as share prices on the display boards turn red.
Times, Sunday Times
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Security officers sit in a dingy room in front of banks of monitors scrutinising X-ray after X-ray of baggage bound for the aircraft hold.
Times, Sunday Times
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Two men busily scrubbed dingy, white plastic chairs, while another mopped soapy water off the tiled floor.
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Neon everywhere, billboards as far as the eye could see, concrete apartment blocks dingy with pollution.
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He helps me to a dingy building.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fans could pack tiny, dingy venues on the edge of various downtowns, and the young people who sustain unpopular popular music could afford the modest cover charges and the watered-down alcoholic beverages.
The Hipster Depression
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You can pay 130 for a dingy room with a view of an air-conditioning shaft.
Times, Sunday Times
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He loved the "Eccellentissima Casa," the checky eagle, the Velasquez portraits and his dingy office, but he never had spoken with the Princess, her son, his wife, or his sister Clementina, without a distinct feeling of disapproving aversion.
The Heart of Rome
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The poor live in dingy cubes of space stacked on top of each other like ice cube trays, twelve stories high even in the slums.
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In one of buildings Feliks rented a dingy room from an Irish woman called Bridget.
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For decades a foreign proletariat toiling in dingy factories from Vladivostok to Karl-Marx-Stadt helped bankroll Pyongyang's transformation into a proud monument to ethnic self-reliance, so that someday a Bruce Cumings could boast that it is anything but the ugly Communist capital one might expect.
Mother of All Mothers
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The set was rather dingy, and some of the dialogue understandably slurred.
Times, Sunday Times
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The place is an eyesore, dingy and dark - not the sort of place that seemed safe to park.
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The foxglove, which is guilty of only sly, petty larceny, wears not the equivalent of the striped suit and the shaved head; nor does the mistletoe, which steals crude food from the tree, but still digests it itself, and is therefore only a dingy yellowish green.
Wild Flowers Worth Knowing
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With their cushiony seats, TV screens, snack service, and full-service rest stops, Turkish buses are not only more civilized than many foreigners may expect, they put the dingy old Greyhounds I remember from my college days to shame.
Rebranding The Bus For Long-Distance Travel
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It was a dingy bar that fronted for a whore house.
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There is no escape from the dingy bedsit.
The Sun
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You want your house to look light and bright, not dark and dingy.
The Sun
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Yeah, here you go, Disney is in that corner, Adult vids are in that dark dingy one.
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His prison is in a dingy room, while the other youngsters share a dormitory.
The Sun
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And for those who live in a dingy basement, good news: it positively relishes the shade.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's in a dingy club and there are punters doing dodgy dancing in bad suits.
The Sun
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The dancefloor of the dingy North London club is full.
Times, Sunday Times
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He had on a dingy white T-shirt with 'Marlboro Racing First to Finish', printed on it, and baggy, scungy black jeans.
Violets Are Blue
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The set was rather dingy, and some of the dialogue understandably slurred.
Times, Sunday Times
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Basil, though close on sixty, had moods of boisterous babyishness, and these seemed for some reason or other to descend upon him particularly in the house of his studious and almost dingy friend.
The Club of Queer Trades
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Many spills can introduce oils into your carpet which attract dirt and help lead to a dingy looking carpet.
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There was a time when dark, dingy offices with secretaries guarding the doors came with a job in the property business.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are exposed ducts and dingy, rather than atmospheric, lighting.
Times, Sunday Times
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Shop No. 19 is a dark, dingy cubby-hole near Gaushala market on Mata Road in the heart of Gurgaon, the capital's gleaming satellite city that is home to the plush offices of Indian and foreign multinational corporations and luxury gated communities that house the executives working in them.
India's Labor Pains Go From Bad To Worse
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The room is dingy, the floor dirty, mashed by a thousand human feet.
Times, Sunday Times
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Take a stroll down the rue St Denis, or through the Bois de Vincennes, and the evidence is unmissable: there are whores everywhere: standing on street corners, lying in the backs of vans, working out of dingy bedsits.
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Spike pressed ahead regardless, scrubbing a virginal white spot into the dingy patio.
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In Liverpool, now half a century ago, I saw under the shadow of the great dingy street-wall of Prince's Dock (an obstruction long since removed) a common sailor, so intensely black that he must needs have been a native African of the unadulterate blood of Ham.
Billy Budd
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The ladies were in their pokiest old head-gear and most dingy gowns, when they perceived the carriage approaching; and considering, of course, that the visit of the Park people was intended for them, dashed into the rectory to change their clothes, leaving Rowkins, the costermonger, in the very midst of the negotiation about the three mackerel.
The Newcomes
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In her 10 X 10 tiny room in the dingy lanes of Sudam Nagari she had come as new bride some 12 years ago with her husband.
Krishnachi Bai
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The building he envisages for the association is a far cry from the dingy, dark hovel it occupies now.
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She did not see the little room with Beryl's eyes, its limited space into which so much had to be crowded, the cracked shade on the lamp, the dingy carpeting that held together through some kind miracle, she only thought it cosy and homey; she liked the queer old clock and the blue bowl filled with artificial jonquils and the crocheted "tidies" with dogs designed in intricate stitches.
Red-Robin
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The glass shard of a building makes the dingy three-and five-story buildings next door seem dingier, and the seamy building boasting adult videos and scantily-clad mannequins even seamier.
A Sliver Shines Above Midtown
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And for those who live in a dingy basement, good news: it positively relishes the shade.
Times, Sunday Times
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All this makes European football look like one of those dingy dive bars where a dozen or so swarthy, unshaven toughs chase two or three belles.