dingy
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Maybe as the city seems to fall apart, she’ll find a leafy park or the back of a dingy bar that’s the right home for these strange, lonely yet hopeful songs.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026
Roughly half a million people pass each day through this cramped, dingy catacomb beneath Madison Square Garden.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 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
They started small - their first office was so dingy that Armani took the shades off the lamps in order to see the fabrics.
From BBC • Sep. 4, 2025
Holding it up, she let the dingy light shine through its watermelon reds and deep greens.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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