dreggy
Example Sentences
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Sandy had no job and lived in a downscale apartment in a dreggy section of town.
From Salon • Nov. 30, 2014
It opposed ice-water morality with the dreggy wine of French "realism."
From Time Magazine Archive
This time, the night so thick, it was impossible to tell the precise moment when the creature emerged from his dreggy pool and began to drag his coils toward hall Heorot.
From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye
Some of the pools were so thick and dreggy that no one knew what linked in the bottom of them.
From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye
To Jess, accustomed to the mild but beautiful savor of a country town, the dreggy Bohemia was sugar and spice.
From The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million by Henry, O.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
