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Meanings of dingily in English

Spanish
sórdidamente

In a dingy manner.

sórdidamente
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Examples for "grungily"
Examples for "grungily"
1
The robot was whirring grungily and pettishly, but it could only fidget, it couldn't actually move.
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide
2
Gritty, breathlessly thrilling and pulsing with tension, William Friedkin's grungily authentic crime movie was shot on a shoestring budget.
The Guardian
1
Rather than waiting around for the promised "transformation of the universe", Storr comes home to England, where we are grubbily inured to imperfection.
The Guardian
Usage of dingily in English
1
The floors, the doors, the cornices and mouldings are cheap in material, dingily garish in colour.
America To-day, Observations and Reflections
2
It was a place rather dingily lighted, the darkest portions having incandescent lights, filled with machines and work benches.
Sister Carrie: A Novel
3
For the most part, they were dingily fair, with snub noses, coarse mouths, and eyes of an indeterminate blue.
The Fortunate Youth
4
It is like a grotto gaudily but dingily decorated, or a vast circus-tent curtained off in hangings of those colors.
Familiar Spanish Travels
5
The source of it was plain-anopen door under a vast white signboard dingily lettered "The Salvation Army."
Hilda: A Story of Calcutta
6
The 17th, my name-day and the day of my election to the Academy, passed dingily and gloomily, as I was unwell.
Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends
7
A single lamp lit the room dingily, revealing the Mexicans bunched on the farther side, a number of them lying down.
The Strange Case of Cavendish
8
The window showed a faint oblong of gray now, beyond where the Major breathed, and certain objects were dingily and coldly visible.
None Other Gods
9
The majority were ragged boys, the gamins of Paris, commingled with several women of no reputable appearance, some dingily, some gaudily apparelled.
The Parisians — Complete
10
Slowly mounting the remaining steps, she followed him as if fascinated towards the door that showed dingily conspicuous in the light of an unshaded gas-jet.
The Masquerader
11
She was herself rather a pathetic little soul, dingily pretty, using the patois of her kind, and always at the fag end of her classes.
By the Light of the Soul: A Novel
12
The floors, the doors, the cornices and mouldings are cheap in material, dingily garish in colour.
America To-day, Observations and Reflections
13
It was a place rather dingily lighted, the darkest portions having incandescent lights, filled with machines and work benches.
Sister Carrie: A Novel
14
For the most part, they were dingily fair, with snub noses, coarse mouths, and eyes of an indeterminate blue.
The Fortunate Youth
15
It is like a grotto gaudily but dingily decorated, or a vast circus-tent curtained off in hangings of those colors.
Familiar Spanish Travels
16
The source of it was plain-anopen door under a vast white signboard dingily lettered "The Salvation Army."
Hilda: A Story of Calcutta
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Translations for dingily
Dingily through the time