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  • adjective comparative form of dingy: more dingy

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Examples

  • A nearer view shows a pair of semi-detached houses, built upon arches, and separated by a thoroughfare; the cleaner of the two is a hospital; the dingier, which is decorated with the brown-green stains, the normal complexion of tropical masonry, lodges the station

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

  • A nearer view shows a pair of semi-detached houses, built upon arches, and separated by a thoroughfare; the cleaner of the two is a hospital; the dingier, which is decorated with the brown - green stains, the normal complexion of tropical masonry, lodges the station Commandant and the medical officers.

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • The glass shard of a building makes the dingy three-and five-story buildings next door seem dingier, and the seamy building boasting adult videos and scantily-clad mannequins even seamier.

    A Sliver Shines Above Midtown Dana Rubinstein 2011

  • Why this bad-breathed, caramel-skinned fool, wearing a faded Mets T-shirt and an even dingier Red Sox cap, made the decision to pick me out of the thousands entering the stadium of fans to go nose-to-nose with is beyond me.

    One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011

  • Without it, Chinatown risks returning to its dingier past, Mr. Chen said.

    Chinatown Business District Plan Moves Ahead Joseph De Avila 2011

  • Why this bad-breathed, caramel-skinned fool, wearing a faded Mets T-shirt and an even dingier Red Sox cap, made the decision to pick me out of the thousands entering the stadium of fans to go nose-to-nose with is beyond me.

    One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011

  • And then she gets home and sheds the good-girl uniform onto the floor and slips into something dingier, something that expresses how she feels inside, and as the song ends, her staring into the camera.

    Top 10 Songs That Should Be Used in a Movie » Scene-Stealers 2009

  • By doing that she noticed the old muslin curtain was dingier than common ... she continued to clean, and then began going to church, and you wouldn't believe the change that came over the little old brown house just because a little girl gave her little potted rose plant to the old hermit woman.

    Subtle Frugality 2008

  • It looked dingier and darker than Will remembered, as if someone had swabbed it with a coating of extra dirt.

    Clockwork Angel Cassandra Clare 2010

  • The aluminum siding was a dingier white and there was no rock garden or statute of the Blessed Mother.

    The Hanging Tree Bryan Gruley 2010

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