Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being dingy or tarnished; a shabby or soiled appearance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Quality of being dingy; a dusky hue.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or quality of being
dingy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun discoloration due to dirtiness
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Examples
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The den/kitchen area was all done in an orange color that would have been alarming had it not been dulled a bit by the kind of dinginess that looks sticky and usually is.
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Overall, I found 9 well done; the animation and the textures of each fabric made doll, the shine of broken statues, the dinginess of bombed out buildingsadds to the complexity of the scenes.
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Despite its dinginess—or am I getting this wrong, is it because of it?
Hollywood Savage Kristin McCloy 2010
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Despite its dinginess—or am I getting this wrong, is it because of it?
Hollywood Savage Kristin McCloy 2010
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The bright-red, dark-black, and all-glass trio of hotels has its critics real-estate blog Curbed dubbed the block "hotel hell" but Mr. Kaufman says the flashy design was necessary to offset the dinginess of the block.
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I have to say the dinginess of the place kept me from ever entering, but I will say I was intrigued by the “Spanish Food” sign in the window.
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The apartment was north facing and the light was poor, adding to the overall air of dinginess.
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He never had any complaints, but the dinginess kept me from venturing in.
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It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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