dingy

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

Operators are upgrading vehicles to move beyond perceptions of aging fleets and dingy stations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 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

When one, an unsettling nine-minute experiment about a warren of dingy carpets, taffy-yellow walls and gridded drop ceilings clicked with 78 million viewers, he made sequels.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

The tea shop which he used to enter timidly, feeling himself but a common country fellow, now seemed dingy and mean to him.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

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

If they're lucky, they make it out alive, just a bit twisted and misshapen, and a few shades dingier.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 1, 2013

He stole across the courtyard, which was dingier than ever in the cool morning light.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

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

In one of the darkest and dingiest sat a cobbler tapping at shoes, surrounded by sprawling children.

From Ghetto Comedies by Israel Zangwill