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dingier
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WordNet
Word definitions in 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 ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (en-comparative of: dingy)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in 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] ||
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.