Thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot.
Sinònims
Examples for "dark"
Examples for "dark"
1They were buried in dust in the dark room in the clock-tower.
2No, no; that would be luxurious; let us chat in the dark.
3No, no; the man who is in the dark is in safety.
4The leader is a dark-brown stallion; the mares are lighter in colour.
5I'd felt dark power similar to this before today-similar ,butnot identical.
1Semihard; blue; goat; mellow; small; square; a quarter to a half pound.
2A sea of blue state police cars stood motionless ahead of them.
3For example, left hand to blue crimp, right foot to green pinch.
4The sea was quite calm, the sky was so clear and blue.
5The wind blows soft; the sky is blue; the sun shines bright
1He immediately said: 'I'm really sorry I interrupted such an important process.
2I kept saying, 'Yes, sir; sorry, sir,' trying to calm him down.
3His home had been left in a sorry state, Mr Oakes said.
4Fine, fine, I stopped feeling sorry for myself long enough to answer.
5She answered it without speaking and a moment later said, I'm sorry.
1It is possible the situation is less grim than it currently appears.
2The Baghdad I left behind five years ago was a grim place.
3Scotland's chief medical officer had another grim message for the public today.
4They bring the grim reality of male violence into our living rooms.
5This was the actual, and often quite grim, reality of the frontier.
1The planet's inhabitants will remain gloomy, however, even despite their new surroundings.
2Chris's own father had reached the gloomy state of mind long ago.
3In general, he had the most gloomy ideas concerning almost all events.
4Rival Spanish hotel chain Melia MEL.MC reported similarly gloomy results last week.
5But it may point to a gloomy long-term outlook for energy prices.
1I have listened with the greatest good nature to your dreary conversation.
2The long dreary day of New York suddenly switched dramatically to evening.
3It was a dank, dreary house but Aidan immediately saw its potential.
4It would be too dreary and boresome for me in my grave.
5The wind swept in fainter and fainter gusts across the dreary moor.
1Johansson said some improvement was seen next year over a dismal 2009.
2This year has proved dismal for most investors in Irish technology stocks.
3He said spirits would start to lift after the dismal rugby result.
4Food was paltry and hygienic conditions often dismal in damp overcrowded cells.
5Somehow I doubt it; it would be a dismal view of humanity.
1Horrific cases involving children and young people make headlines with depressing regularity.
2A depressing number of the electorate feel that nothing ever really changes.
3In a way, it was depressing that matters had reached this point.
4He urged counter-cyclical measures that would work against the trends depressing activity.
5In spite of the sunshine the walk through the battle-field was depressing.
1Will I see the familiar, drab reality of the original Gerald Livingstone?
2The elevators were along a far wall, but their doors were drab.
3The sixth-form library-cum-common room of a Stockport public school is timelessly drab.
4Thanks for adding a ray of sunshine to those otherwise drab days.
5The room was drab, disgusting; he wanted to get out of it.
1The landlady moved in the background, a disconsolate figure with a grievance.
2I waited for ages, sipping fizzy water and becoming steadily more disconsolate.
3Nor was the disconsolate matron the only one who lamented her losses.
4The schoolmistress did not look in the least disconsolate after Nicky's departure.
5G. Look up, thou poor disconsolate; you speak of quitting earthly enjoyments.
1Fog machines provide a dispiriting miasma; the puddles come from water trucks.
2It conflicts with the box set regime, and it can be dispiriting.
3I had nothing to complain of; but the effect was rather dispiriting.
4But the period after the interval was even more dispiriting for Chelsea.
5This is pretty dispiriting, bordering on manically depressing, from a European perspective.
1Every object on the wall was plainly visible in this drear light.
2My pleasing fancies dispersed- Iagainfaced the drear reality of my position.
3Night fell upon the waters, dark and drear, and thick and misty.
4And the Nightfort is a haunted ruin, a drear and dreadful place.
5Otherwise it was all so cold, so drear, so dead, so unaffecting.
(Of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear.
1The house they stopped in front of was rather dingy and forbidding.
2Image matters and what will a cramped, dingy space say about yours?
3The second rescue was again of Kiribati fishermen, missing in a dingy.
4Four or five dingy forms dart in and out among the tepees.
5Rouletabille crossed the court and entered the dingy old room once more.
6Sleep held him until daylight seeped in through the one dingy window.
7I had never eaten here; I had always thought it looked dingy.
8The silks were faded, dingy, worn in the creases from sheer disuse.
9There were three portraits of the Corsican on the dingy green walls.
10As to the house itself, it was the dingy abode of dreariness.
11She flounders like a huge conger-eel in an ocean of dingy morality
12One switch plate looked shiny and new, the other dingy and cracked.
13Across the dingy room, Starface stepped into view from around the corner.
14The low, dingy buildings and bad smell pervading the place startled her.
15They did not often see a pretty girl in these dingy rooms.
16It is two stories in height, with one window, dingy and uninviting.
Dingy per variant geogràfica