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• As an angst-ridden teenager, I was a haunter of smoke-filled coffee shops and dingy second-hand bookstores.From the entry haunter
• The walls were never painted during my tenantry, becoming dingier and dingier as the years went by.From the entry tenantry
• The inner city was ringed with dingy industrial areas.From the entry ring
• He flung his shoes across the room, their soles leaving black scuffs on the dingy wall.2015, Charles W. Jones, Hydrangeas on the Lanai. From the entry scuff
• You mean those few sodden logs tied together and that dingy slab of rough concrete.”2010, Ryan Humphreys, The Flirtations of Dan Harris, page 73. From the entry slab
• 'Matilda' brought to mind dingy curtains, gray tent flaps, a slack-skinned old woman.1990, Alice Munro, Friend of My Youth, .Stories, →ISBN, page 187. From the entry matilda
• The bathroom is smeared with fingerprints and painted dingy white, not the most flattering light.1988, Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye. From the entry dinge
• For five minutes, Tommy sat on the bed in the dingy room next door.1922, Agatha Christie, “Chapter 16”, in The Secret Adversary. From the entry cross-grained
• His parlor was dingy and carpetless; one could smell distinctly there the vow of poverty.1907, George Washington Cable, Old Creole Days. From the entry carpetless
• Oh I'd love if Disney gave me a little ringy dingy,' she sarcastically joked while looking directly down the camera.2019 July 30, Annita Katee, “Melissa McCarthy flashes a wink when asked if she has been cast as Ursula in The Little Mermaid live-action…. From the entry ringy dingy
• The man on Zeke's side had a scrabbly black beard and wore a dingy baseball cap low over his beady eyes.2013, C. C. Marks, Heart of Mercy. From the entry scrabbly
• His fancy-prancy equine stride took him a half block down the ghetto street into the dingy foyer of a tenement building.2004, Iceberg Slim, Airtight Willie & Me. From the entry thrilly
• Two of her personalities--little girl Edith Ann and Ernestine, the sassy telephone operator (“One ringy dingy”)--caught on immediately.1993 February 7, Michael Arkush, “TELEVISION : Sock It to ‘Em! […]”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times…. From the entry ringy dingy
• It's a hip place to be, Phyllis' Musical Inn: smoky, dusty, and dingy, it fulfills most expectations of contemporary urban bohemia.1988 March 18, Achy Obejas, “Calendar”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry bohemia
• The streets had a dingy and forlorn look.1987, Richard Pool, “Prisoner of War”, in Course for Disaster: From Scapa Flow to the River Kwai, London: Leo Cooper, Heinemann, →ISBN…. From the entry lorry
• With the universal pass-key of imagination we open the dingy door, pass down a dark passage and up a narrow stair.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html)…. From the entry passkey
• Lord John Roxton and I turned down Vigo Street together and through the dingy portals of the famous aristocratic rookery.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry rookery
• It's dark, dingy, and jukeboxed, with a mixed bag of gays, MBTA motormen, nursing students from Mass General, and law students from Suffolk University.2012, Jeremiah Healy, Blunt Darts, →ISBN. From the entry jukeboxed
• In Fadius's dingy room in Messantia, Alcina sat alone, holding her obsidian amulet before her and watching the alternate black-and-white bands of the time candle.1979, L. Sprague de Camp, Lin Carter, Conan the Liberator, page 108. From the entry time candle
• It all looked depressing and dingy.1968, Lady Cynthia Asquith, Diaries 1915-1918. From the entry illish
• The much-vaunted phenomenon of the "cybernat", spraying online vitriol from a dingy bedroom, does indubitably exist, but so does its exact equivalent on the opposite side.2016, Mike Parker, “Caledonia Dreaming: September – December 2014”, in The Greasy Poll: Diary of a Controversial Election, Talybont…. From the entry cybernat
• “I finally asked him to choose, and he told me on her front porch in holey draws and a dingy wifebeater, he was in love with the other woman.”2013, Sasha Campbell, Consequences, New York, N.Y.: Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN, page 292. From the entry draws
• Before pollution and overharvesting intervened, New York was one of the world’s great oyster hubs and the shellfish was abundant in its street markets, dingy bars and fancy restaurants.2007 July 22, Gregory Beyer, “A Taste of History, Poised for Revival”, in New York Times. From the entry overharvesting
• He is a dingy duck who would assume swanship, a crow who would strut as a peacock, an alley cat who would pass himself off as a lion.1943, Dent Smith, Encore: A Continuing Anthology. From the entry swanship
• In Paris there is a dingy café 'way down in the Latin Quarter run by an old man by the name of Frederick, who serves pressed duck.1909 January 20, “The fame of a dish”, in Printers' Ink, page 93. From the entry pressed duck
• Later came midsummer, with the stifling heat, when the dingy killing beds of Durham’s became a very purgatory; one time, in a single day, three men fell dead from sunstroke.1904, Upton Sinclair, chapter 10, in The Jungle. From the entry sunstroke

Meaning of dingy

1. adjective Dark, dull.
2. adjective Shabby, squalid, uncared-for.
3. adjective Resembling or characteristic of a ding (the sound).

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How do you use dingy in a sentence?

Dingy is used as an adjective. For example: “As an angst-ridden teenager, I was a haunter of smoke-filled coffee shops and dingy second-hand bookstores.”

What is a short sentence with dingy?

“It all looked depressing and dingy.”

What does dingy mean?

Dingy means dark, dull.