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
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
The Parleys live in a dingily magnificent mansion of Beacon Street.
From Time Magazine Archive
"The most squalid public environment of the U.S.: dank, dingily lit, fetid, raucous with screechingclatter."
From Time Magazine Archive
What were just features, what just dingily represented one, as it were, is forgotten, or rather gets remembered.
From The Return by De la Mare, Walter
