dingier; dingiest
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Examples of dingy in a Sentence
He's been staying in a dingy motel.
the bed sheets were pretty dingy so we threw them in the laundry pile
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Around Damascus, entire neighborhoods lay razed and depopulated, and much of the city center looked dingy and worn.
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Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2024
My bed sheets, which have transformed from a crisp white to a dingy eyesore that no amount of bleach can solve, need a refresh.
—Maggie Horton, People.com, 28 Dec. 2024
The first was a dingy concrete box, reasonable for adults but psychologically scarring for children, and the latter was the same room redecorated and transformed as a preschool, somewhere children might look forward to spending a few hours.
—Vogue, 11 Dec. 2024
From odorous workout clothes to terribly dingy towels and everything in between, Gain Rinse and Renew breaks down the residue that causes odors deep within fabrics and removes it at the source.
—Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
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Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2024
My bed sheets, which have transformed from a crisp white to a dingy eyesore that no amount of bleach can solve, need a refresh.
—Maggie Horton, People.com, 28 Dec. 2024
The first was a dingy concrete box, reasonable for adults but psychologically scarring for children, and the latter was the same room redecorated and transformed as a preschool, somewhere children might look forward to spending a few hours.
—Vogue, 11 Dec. 2024
From odorous workout clothes to terribly dingy towels and everything in between, Gain Rinse and Renew breaks down the residue that causes odors deep within fabrics and removes it at the source.
—Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
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“Dingy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dingy. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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