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dingily

UK/ˈdɪndʒɪli/

dingily adverb: in a dingy manner.

Adverb

dingily (comparative more dingily, superlative most dingily)

  1. In a dingy manner.
    • Yonder dingily white remnant of a huge snowbank,—which will yet cumber the sidewalk till the latter days of March,—over or through that wintry waste must I stride onward.1842, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Night Sketches, Beneath an Umbrella”, in Twice-Told Tales, volume 2, Boston: James Munroe & Co., page 273
    • Behind, the terraced sides of a mountain, abrupt in places, rising high,
      Broken, with rocks, with clinging cedars, with tall shapes dingily seen;1871, Walt Whitman, “Bivouac on a Mountain Side”, in Leaves of Grass, New York: J.S. Redfield, page 277

Forms of dingily

comparativemore dingily
superlativemost dingily

Origin of dingily

From dingy + -ly.

Questions about dingily

What does dingily mean?
Dingily means in a dingy manner.
What part of speech is dingily?
Dingily is an adverb.
How do you pronounce dingily?
Dingily is pronounced /ˈdɪndʒɪli/ (UK).

Words near dingily in the dictionary

  1. dingier
  2. dingies
  3. dingiest
  4. Dingilian
  5. Dingilians
  6. dingily
  7. Dinginan
  8. dinginess
  9. dinginesses
  10. dinging
  11. dinging up

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