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 most squalid public environment of the U.S.: dank, dingily lit, fetid, raucous with screechingclatter."
From Time Magazine Archive
The 14-page News of the World still clings to a dingily archaic makeup, small, unimaginative headlines, and few pictures.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the '90s, when Bruce Rogers started his career, U. S. books were as dingily printed as they were apt to be turgidly written.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the church that had once seemed so inspiring now struck him as dingily and poorly designed, without any of the mystery which once had made it beautiful.
From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by MacKenzie, Compton
