dingily
Example Sentences
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Like Powell, Kynaston is attracted by people who make compromises, accept second-best, live dingily and submit quietly without relinquishing hope.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 15, 2013
The 14-page News of the World still clings to a dingily archaic makeup, small, unimaginative headlines, and few pictures.
From Time Magazine Archive
"The most squalid public environment of the U.S.: dank, dingily lit, fetid, raucous with screechingclatter."
From Time Magazine Archive
Hand-held cameras on dingily lighted sets catch life on the run; overlapping conversations lend Hill Street the texture of a Robert Altman locker room.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nod dragged it, stiff and frozen, nearer the fire, and with his knife slit open the deep-black, shimmering neck, and there, wrapped damp and dingily in its scrap of Oomgar-paper, his fingers clutched the Wonderstone.
From The Three Mulla-mulgars by Walter De la Mare
