Crossword clues for dingier
dingier
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dingy \Din"gy\ (d[i^]n"j[y^]),
[Compar. Dingier; superl. Dingiest.] [Pro
fr. dung. Cf. Dungy.] Soiled; sullied; of a dark or dusky color; dark brown; dirty. ``Scraps of dingy paper.''
--Macaulay. [1913 Webster] ||
Wiktionary
a. (en-comparative of: dingy)
WordNet
adj. thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen" [syn: begrimed, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy]
(of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; "dirty" is often used in combination; "a dirty (or dingy) white"; "the muddied gray of the sea"; "muddy colors"; "dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair" [syn: dirty, muddied, muddy]
depressing in character or appearance; "drove through dingy streets"; "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens; "drab old buildings"; "a dreary mining town"; "gloomy tenements"; "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams [syn: dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, sorry]
See dingy
Usage examples of "dingier".
Keeping a discreet distance between us, I followed him across J Fleet Street, down Fetter Lane and through some of the, narrow and dingier lanes behind Holborn.
Keeping a discreet distance between us, I followed him across Fleet Street, down Fetter Lane and through some of the narrow and dingier lanes behind Holborn.
I always avoid the dingier quarters of Soho, because I am convinced that there is more crime there behind those dull walls than the police ever guess.
Down a dingy side street was a dingier window—once a shop-window, now covered by dirty buff curtains.
Meadow Road looked dingier than ever in the afternoon sunshine, and her flat, even with its brave show of flowers in the tubs and its cheerfully painted door, looked shabby.
At the end was another alley running crossways, some stairs going up on one side, and an opening into an even dingier passageway on the other.