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By the 1960s, using the New York subway meant navigating what a John Lindsay-era task force called "the most squalid public environment of the United States: dank, dingily lit, fetid, raucous with screeching clatter, one of the world's meanest transit facilities."

When in Helvetica Michael Bierut 2011

On a weekday the folk were dingily and curiously hung about with dirty rags of housecloth and scarlet flannel, sacking, curtain serge, and patches of old carpet, and went either bare-footed or on rude wooden sandals.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

It was a place rather dingily lighted, the darkest portions having incandescent lights, filled with machines and work benches.

Sister Carrie 2004

It is like a grotto gaudily but dingily decorated, or a vast circus-tent curtained off in hangings of those colors.

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

Uncle Fred, a stingy and grey-faced man of forty, who just lived dingily for himself, went into town every day.

The Virgin and the Gypsy 2003

Than queening it at balls, she felt more in her element seated in a rather dingily furnished drawing-room, holding poor Agnes

The Way Home 2003

But the next instant she heard that dingy voice, that spoke so many languages dingily, assailing her with familiarity:

The Plumed Serpent 2003

The little inn at Lorette was then kept by a worthy host bearing the above-mentioned name, which was dingily lettered out upon a swinging sign, dingily representing a trotting horse, -- emblem as dear to the slow Canadian as to the fast American mind.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 Various

The source of it was plain -- an open door under a vast white signboard dingily lettered

Hilda A Story of Calcutta Sara Jeannette Duncan

The dingily gaudy saloon fronts, like drabs in blowsy finery, struck a too sophisticated, sinister note -- which, after all, only sums up completely the change which had taken place.

Then I'll Come Back to You Larry Evans