dingy

• So the Dome of Security remained blotched and dingy, the sole permanent building of Satellite City. —  The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh
• I had somehow or other pictured to myself the rebel generals as a dingy-looking set, like the Covenanters of old, or Cromwell's Invincibles, and I could scarcely persuade myself that those I saw were officers of the enemy's army. —  Hurricane Hurry
• Shall we ask our kind friend the vicar to open it and read it out for us O yes, yes," cried Jane, "if he will be so good With pleasure, dear friends," said Mr Maltby, and he held out his hand for the dingy-looking letter.--Little did the writer imagine, when he penned that wretched scrawl, what a value it would have in the eyes of so many interested and anxious hearers. —  True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best
• Its original white was dingy, and the tightly closed blinds gave an appearance of desertion. —  The Case and the Girl
• The walls were so high and so dingy, the little pictures were lost upon them; and the vases on the great black mantel-shelf looked so insignificant, I felt ashamed of them, and owned the unfitness of decorating such a room. —  Richard Vandermarck

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