dingier; dingiest
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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As for washing, the white will hold up to about 20 cycles before starting to look a little dingy, but the black holds up fine, and both will hold their shape.
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Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 25 Apr. 2025
Dust Everything Dust can become your invisible worst enemy, making every surface look dingy and wreak havoc on anyone suffering from allergies.
—Stacey Leasca, Southern Living, 30 Mar. 2025
Wind blew in through leaky wooden windows with dingy, rattly glass.
—Jane Margolies, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
Jack Clayton’s 1974 adaptation, starring Robert Redford and Mia Farrow, comes closest to finding the balance, pitting dingy ’70s grays and a naturalistic camera against Redford at his most shiningly charismatic as Gatsby.
—Constance Grady, Vox, 7 Mar. 2025
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Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 25 Apr. 2025
Dust Everything Dust can become your invisible worst enemy, making every surface look dingy and wreak havoc on anyone suffering from allergies.
—Stacey Leasca, Southern Living, 30 Mar. 2025
Wind blew in through leaky wooden windows with dingy, rattly glass.
—Jane Margolies, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
Jack Clayton’s 1974 adaptation, starring Robert Redford and Mia Farrow, comes closest to finding the balance, pitting dingy ’70s grays and a naturalistic camera against Redford at his most shiningly charismatic as Gatsby.
—Constance Grady, Vox, 7 Mar. 2025
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“Dingy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dingy. Accessed 17 May. 2025.
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