dingier; dingiest
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Examples of dingy in a Sentence
He's been staying in a dingy motel.
the bed sheets were pretty dingy so we threw them in the laundry pile
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After several months of traipsing through dingy slush and teetering precariously across unshoveled Denver sidewalks, my thermal Blundstone Chelsea boots look wrecked.
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Beth Rankin, The Denver Post, 5 Nov. 2024
The gas stations had the dingy look of gas stations everywhere, mottled with the stains of oil and exhaust.
—Greg Jackson, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
Appearing in the opening scene in a dingy bar holding photographs of the young and old Fukase, the creature silently asserts himself as a central player in the story that’s about to unfold.
—Richard Kuipers, Variety, 3 Nov. 2024
As an alternative to chlorine bleach for whitening whites, try oxygen bleach, baking soda, or laundry bluing, an old-fashioned laundry product that is excellent at brightening dingy or yellowed whites.
—Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Oct. 2024
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Beth Rankin, The Denver Post, 5 Nov. 2024
The gas stations had the dingy look of gas stations everywhere, mottled with the stains of oil and exhaust.
—Greg Jackson, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
Appearing in the opening scene in a dingy bar holding photographs of the young and old Fukase, the creature silently asserts himself as a central player in the story that’s about to unfold.
—Richard Kuipers, Variety, 3 Nov. 2024
As an alternative to chlorine bleach for whitening whites, try oxygen bleach, baking soda, or laundry bluing, an old-fashioned laundry product that is excellent at brightening dingy or yellowed whites.
—Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Oct. 2024
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“Dingy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dingy. Accessed 18 Nov. 2024.
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