dingier; dingiest
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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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From odorous workout clothes to terribly dingy towels and everything in between, Gain Rinse and Renew breaks down the residue that causes odors deep within fabrics and removes it at the source.
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Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
The 16-inch screen is delightfully bright, with wide viewing angles and pristine white backgrounds instead of dingy.
—PCMAG, 11 Dec. 2024
His third-floor office, in a dingy concrete building across a roaring four-lane road from the Ikeja market, is a charnel house of dead mobile phones.
—Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
The cells are meticulously clean — an intentional and stark contrast to the dingy and squalid prisons of El Salvador’s past.
—David Culver, CNN, 6 Nov. 2024
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Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
The 16-inch screen is delightfully bright, with wide viewing angles and pristine white backgrounds instead of dingy.
—PCMAG, 11 Dec. 2024
His third-floor office, in a dingy concrete building across a roaring four-lane road from the Ikeja market, is a charnel house of dead mobile phones.
—Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
The cells are meticulously clean — an intentional and stark contrast to the dingy and squalid prisons of El Salvador’s past.
—David Culver, CNN, 6 Nov. 2024
See all Example Sentences for dingy
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“Dingy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dingy. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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