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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Customers and analysts alike say food quality suffered, table service slowed and restaurants became dingy.
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Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 28 Mar. 2025
Things didn't quite go as the scientists planned, however, resulting in an extremely miffed bunch of people consigned to a life in dingy tunnels.
—Richard Edwards, Space.com, 26 Mar. 2025
When Abercrombie does offer up interiors, they’re sparsely furnished and dingy, like rooms in a flophouse.
—Jeremy Lybarger, ARTnews.com, 26 Mar. 2025
The screen's brightness and contrast are ample, and its colors are rich and well-saturated, with clean instead of dingy white backgrounds.
—PCMAG, 25 Mar. 2025
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Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 28 Mar. 2025
Things didn't quite go as the scientists planned, however, resulting in an extremely miffed bunch of people consigned to a life in dingy tunnels.
—Richard Edwards, Space.com, 26 Mar. 2025
When Abercrombie does offer up interiors, they’re sparsely furnished and dingy, like rooms in a flophouse.
—Jeremy Lybarger, ARTnews.com, 26 Mar. 2025
The screen's brightness and contrast are ample, and its colors are rich and well-saturated, with clean instead of dingy white backgrounds.
—PCMAG, 25 Mar. 2025
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 15 Apr. 2025.
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