Thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot.
Small sculpin of the coast of New England.
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Examples for "dingy "
Examples for "dingy "
1 The house they stopped in front of was rather dingy and forbidding.
2 Image matters and what will a cramped, dingy space say about yours?
3 The second rescue was again of Kiribati fishermen, missing in a dingy .
4 Four or five dingy forms dart in and out among the tepees.
5 Rouletabille crossed the court and entered the dingy old room once more.
1 I thought perhaps the effervescence would help break up the grimy grossness.
2 Having your genitalia winched off seems a particularly grimy way to go.
3 Lots of grimy water and smoke-smudged walls, but no visible fire damage.
4 The electric numerals of the carriage call soon brought the grimy - faced chauffeur.
5 All about him the houses and the street were grimy and depressing.
1 In the depths of this yard stood a low, iron-roofed, smoke - begrimed building.
2 Fallion saw that his beard was not gray, merely begrimed with ash.
3 It was a very dirty-looking shop, with begrimed bricks and blackened woodwork.
4 They were begrimed and charred, as if they had survived a fire.
5 His face was begrimed with dirt, his clothes were torn and untidy.
1 Candy said she had seen the show, and it was pretty raunchy .
2 But how do they manage with Eddie van Halen's raunchy guitar solos?
3 The dirt on him concerns raunchy e-mails he sent his girlfriend, Clementine.
4 Want it Ruff is a raunchy track produced by Ireland Records.
5 Your filmography of raunchy comedies doesn't exactly scream family friendly films.
1 The price for this pro-level way to make your photos all grungy ?
2 In spite of Ryan's grungy appearance, he had seemed young and frightened.
3 The hyena took form with his leather vest and grungy long hair.
4 She felt about as grungy as she'd ever felt in her life.
5 Both astronaut and starship are distinctly grungy and the worse for wear.
1 A necessary, but grubby compromise his party would soon put behind them.
2 I called you that for grabbing sleeves in grubby hands, of course.
3 Isaac stared out of the window into the grubby New Crobuzon night.
4 One feels slightly grubby even referring to this particular piece of near-sophistry.
5 And yes, Jacob Zuma does have his grubby fingerprints all over them.
6 Wash your arms, take off that grubby apron and answer the door!'
7 She disgraces the family by marrying a grubby newspaper fellow called Porter.
8 So they sent grubby , desperate men to wreck it at any cost.
9 The great, gorgeous, shimmering thing completely hid her grubby little black gown.
10 She pointed a thin, grubby finger back the way they had come.
11 The stubbly hairs were fair and the unpainted toenails a little grubby .
12 It was just as barren and grubby as the office next door.
13 My life is a grubby torment of cravings because it isn't settled.
14 Facebook Twitter Pinterest The grubby , vandalized ruin evokes a low-budget hipster Ozymandias.
15 His eyes were red and his brown skin grubby with tear streaks.
16 Some of them wanted to rub their grubby faces against my hands.
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