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    dingy


    1. There are probably two dozen women in the town of Sinbara right now staring out the dingy window at their breakfast table and wishing there was someone there to share the view, or wishing they had a view in the sunshine at all


    2. A dingy back room in Dublin was a bucket of cold water for most people and a cloak of invisibility for the rest


    3. Closing her eyes, fighting against the sharp disinfectant smell of the hospital, she forced herself to picture the interior of the bus … nauseating diesel fumes … a dingy, well used fabric covering the seats, chipped and faded paint on the accoutrements of metal … or was it plastic? She found it hard to tell sometimes … she heard again the chatter and laughter of the young people as they swayed along the aisle towards the door as the vehicle approached the bus stop


    4. Cyberia, unaccustomed as she was to seeing the metropolis in its daytime apparel, walked open-mouthed past dingy basement flat windows, down long, dark alleyways and visibly felt herself shrink before the impressive, classically styled porticos of ancient institutional temples


    5. In this dingy, leaning against the mast meant her feet were over the bow


    6. dingy gray pants and a shirt that matched


    7. would have was a tiny locker in a dingy and infrequently-visited


    8. handsome buildings – he was surrounded by dingy, run


    9. The once dingy green floor of the Tavern


    10. She learned that it was actually located in a rather dingy residential neighborhood

    11. and dingy, with plaster peeling off the walls and papers


    12. about at his dingy surroundings


    13. He recalled the glossy waxed grey stone floors that today were dull, dingy and covered with leaves and branches


    14. A job he hated, a family he never saw, meeting the same few friends once a month at the same dingy pub


    15. Gerrid had been lying in the dingy for about twenty minutes, going over the events of his past, wondering how much of his life would be wiped out


    16. Scattered amongst the courtyards, alleys and quadrangles were warrens of dingy living quarters and storerooms, juxtaposed with larger houses that were highly and attractively embellished, the walls being stuccoed in red and finished in white


    17. the shortest streets were choked up with a dingy mist, half thawed,


    18. He scribbled in the dingy light of the car, silently purring over the motorway


    19. On the count of three, they all shoved, moving the heavy wooden dingy backwards perhaps a metre


    20. Piers ran the boat up onto the beach next to the half-sunken dingy

    21. Conal watched Troy swim to the stern of the sunken dingy and pull himself over


    22. The shop’s office was dingy, lit only by one bare low-wattage bulb hanging from the ceiling


    23. The shop’s windows were as dingy as they had been, and someone was working in the dimly-lit interior


    24. shoulder as they walked down the dingy corridor towards their room


    25. coffee mugs with a dingy brown terrycloth


    26. After bearing the hot water, Junya pissed in the dingy toilet


    27. Beyond the security checkpoint, the facility is not as dingy as it was before


    28. We walk into the dingy office where David gave me my mother’s journal


    29. Perhaps Arthur Salisbury had sat in the dingy pub and had observed the man who was to become known as Jack the Ripper luring one of his unsuspecting victims to their grisly fate


    30. He wore gray, ragged clothes that looked so shabby and dingy

    31. The rooms were on the small side, dark and dingy


    32. He was dragged back, beaten mercilessly and then thrown into the stockade, a dingy hole with an earthen floor


    33. Jimmy would be sitting by the phone in his dingy apartment not far away


    34. Natalie gave her correct address at the dingy little room she was renting from Jimmy


    35. There still was a fairly dingy, rundown look to it all


    36. She had apparently never gone back to her previous line of work and lived in a dingy flat, finding employment as a hairdresser, dreaming all the while of travelling the world


    37. The control room at the centre of the CN production plant was a cramped, dingy, soporific environment to work in


    38. You can’t keep your concentration in that dingy old plant for eight hours never mind twelve


    39. They lived in lodgings or dingy rented rooms and their only outlet from the


    40. Spock and the lady went into a dingy room

    41. Servio's house, a dingy, ill-famed den, was located close to the wharves, facing the waterfront


    42. They approached the dilapidated shack next to the dingy hangar that served as an office and quietly knocked on the door


    43. with his right, and pointed the implement at a distant dingy wall at the back


    44. Leon came from the back of his office with his white, dingy jacket and gestured for me to come back, where I sat on a blue, hard chair


    45. We passed a badly-lit hotel, a dingy


    46. 'I have to tell you, Babe, your place isn't as dingy as I expected'


    47. Later that day, Mitchell pulled into a dingy high-rise hotel in a seedy part of Miami; in search of the recommended hit man


    48. ’’ Growled Ingrid as she looked down at the single dingy wharf of what passed as a port for the island of Espiritu Santo


    49. Once safe inside the dingy room, he checked that it was actually cash in the bag, and hid it under the bed


    50. Suddenly the dingy













































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    Synonyms for "dingy"

    blue dark dingy disconsolate dismal drab drear dreary gloomy grim sorry begrimed grimy grubby grungy raunchy dirty muddied muddy clouded dull sullied

    "dingy" definitions

    thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot


    (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear


    causing dejection