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dingy

[din-jee] / ˈdɪn dʒi /


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In response, the leader of Arioka orders Kanbei be thrown in the castle’s impeccably dingy dungeon.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 2026

The address she was given turned out to be a "dingy gross motel", but she says she presumed they would be heading out somewhere else.

From BBC Jul. 29, 2026

The veil between this world and the next is so thin that Clark can literally walk right through it, from his dingy store into the familiar yellow dimension of the film’s opening sequence.

From Salon May 30, 2026

They could end up nursing a grudge that they paid $200 a night for a space that resembles a dingy roadside motel rather than a boutique experience.

From MarketWatch Apr. 3, 2026

And in between dingy white and stripes and polka dots, there was a peek of blue.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake

A delay in getting new rail cars could push back Metro’s expansion and leave passengers stuck with the dingier older cars as hundreds of thousands of people descend on the region for the Games.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2024

Knowles pointed out other upgrades: He airbrushed the paint job on the siding to make it look dingier.

From Seattle Times Dec. 14, 2021

Your clothes “are dingier from when you started washing them until now. It’s happening a little bit at a time. Because you didn’t sort at all, everything becomes abraded.”

From Washington Post Aug. 16, 2021

The company hopes to replace some of its dingier, outdated stores with those awash in bright light and clean lines, sometimes nearby.

From New York Times Aug. 19, 2014

I go down a hall beside the studio audience steps, this hallway dingier than the one we entered the studio through, and open the first door I see.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

Even when the setting is at its dingiest, its directors Thor Freudenthal and Jon Amiel draw the eye to the beauty in the muck, making the loveliest scenes glow all the richer.

From Salon Aug. 29, 2019

That’s just over $10 a day for everything — in one of the world’s most expensive cities, where the tiniest and dingiest rooms start renting $400 a month.

From Time Jun. 21, 2016

The BBC visited the workshop of Graham Cox to see how he brings colour and light to the dingiest of corners.

From BBC Mar. 23, 2016

It's by far the smallest and dingiest outlet in the chain: The carpet is beige and worn, the ceilings are low, the lights fluorescent.

From BusinessWeek Jan. 20, 2011

And the dingiest brunette will soon blossom out in the full glory of the spun-gold blonde.

From News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories by M. Lyle (Matthew Lyle) Spencer




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