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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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.
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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
Aging terminals, clunky technology, and dingy aircraft can make the experience feel anything but glamorous.
—Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Nov. 2024
In any case, any firm who’s product and processes aren’t AI enabled are going to look as old and dingy as firms who can’t enable web access to shopping and services today.
—John Sviokla, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
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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
Aging terminals, clunky technology, and dingy aircraft can make the experience feel anything but glamorous.
—Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Nov. 2024
In any case, any firm who’s product and processes aren’t AI enabled are going to look as old and dingy as firms who can’t enable web access to shopping and services today.
—John Sviokla, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
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“Dingy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dingy. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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