Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
dinghy . - Foul; dirty.
- Soiled; tarnished; of a dusky color; having a dull-brownish tinge.
- Synonyms Tarnished, rusty, dull.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Soiled; sullied; of a dark or dusky color; dark brown; dirty.
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- noun Alternative form of
dinghy . - adjective
drab ;shabby ;dirty ;squalid
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot
- adjective causing dejection
- adjective (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear
Etymologies
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Examples
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One of my policies is to avoid motels where you need to communicate with the clerk through a slot in dingy bulletproof glass.
Motel Paradiso 2007
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One of my policies is to avoid motels where you need to communicate with the clerk through a slot in dingy bulletproof glass.
Motel Paradiso 2007
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The poor live in dingy cubes of space stacked on top of each other like ice cube trays, twelve stories high even in the slums.
365 tomorrows » J. Loseth : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007
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The poor live in dingy cubes of space stacked on top of each other like ice cube trays, twelve stories high even in the slums.
365 tomorrows » 2006 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2006
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For decades a foreign proletariat toiling in dingy factories from Vladivostok to Karl-Marx-Stadt helped bankroll Pyongyang's transformation into a proud monument to ethnic self-reliance, so that someday a Bruce Cumings could boast that it is anything but the ugly Communist capital one might expect.
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For decades a foreign proletariat toiling in dingy factories from Vladivostok to Karl-Marx-Stadt helped bankroll Pyongyang's transformation into a proud monument to ethnic self-reliance, so that someday a Bruce Cumings could boast that it is anything but the ugly Communist capital one might expect.
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Among them was a man in dingy civilian clothes who was lying with his arm across his face and apparently asleep.
Revenge is Sour 1945
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And there was a certain dingy office in a lane-like street that was also a centre in the early eighties.
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"Bless you, yes, sir," said that worthy, resplendent in dingy scarlet uniform.
A Little Bush Maid 1910
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People whose lives, and those of their parents before them, have been spent in dingy tenements, and whose only garden is a rickety soap-box high up on a fire-escape, share this love, which must have a plant to tend, with those whose gardens cover acres and whose plants have been gathered from all the countries of the world.
oroboros commented on the word dingy
Bi-sonic as in dingy blond: dirty v. dingbatty.
March 20, 2009
bilby commented on the word dingy
Really, oro ...
March 20, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word dingy
I rowed my grimy dinghy across an oily bay
And spied a dingy shack upon a dismal cay.
May 13, 2010