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How to pronounce dingy in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms blue, dark, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry
Type Words
Synonyms begrimed, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy
Derivation dinge, dinginess


dingy linen.
Type Words
Synonyms dirty, muddied, muddy
Derivation dinge, dinginess


a dirty (or dingy) white.

Examples of dingy

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Physically, it is a dingy office under the eaves of the social science building.
From the time.com
They settled for scooping dingy water samples from a ditch adjacent to the farm.
From the online.wsj.com
Most of the fighting has focused north of Gia Nghia, the dingy province capital.
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All dingy harry wants to do is pay back the Vegas mafia that got him reelected.
From the washingtontimes.com
The one to the left is dingy, broken-down, a half-rusted tailpipe sticking out.
From the bloomberg.com
At the CNN workspace in a dingy downtown hotel, John Lewis had not slept in days.
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The water was just dingy enough to provide camouflage for bass around the stumps.
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That said, I can sort of see why people keep coming, despite its dingy condition.
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Carriero leads the way up a dingy stairwell to visit a previously busted store.
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More examples
  • Begrimed: thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen"
  • Dirty: (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; "dirty" is often used in combination; "a dirty (or dingy) white"; "the muddied grey of the sea"; "muddy colors"; "dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair"
  • Blue: causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"
  • (dingily) in a dingy manner
  • (dinginess) discoloration due to dirtiness
  • Drab; shabby; dirty; squalid
  • (dinginess) The state or quality of being dingy
  • Vehicle that is towed behind an RV.