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Meanings of rather dingy in English

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Usage of rather dingy in English
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The house they stopped in front of was rather dingy and forbidding.
Campfire Girls in the Allegheny Mountains; or, A Christmas Succe...
2
By this time they had reached the rather dingy-looking house of their deceased relative.
Herbert Carter's Legacy; Or, the Inventor's Son
3
It was a rather dingy night, although a fair number of stars were out.
Life on the Mississippi
4
She awakened in a small, rather dingy room.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
5
All novelties stimulated him, and to his inexperience the rather dingy old school seemed enormously impressive.
The Soul of a Child
6
Out beside the front door was a rather dingy sign that said "Boarders Wanted."
Bunker Bean
7
Peggy was certainly one of the 'common herd'-herclothes ragged or patched and her person rather dingy.
Honey-Sweet
8
Jack's room is rather dark, and the weather, on the day of the Oaks, was rather dingy.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843
9
Gerty lay asleep on a rather dingy little mattress, with Mr. Comstock's overcoat rolled beneath her head.
Oldport Days
10
It was an old stone house, rather dingy, and surrounded by a high stone wall surmounted by sharp pickets.
The Treasure-Train
11
A white handkerchief appears in front of her eyes, held in Mrs Fox's own rather dingy and wrinkled glove.
The crimson petal and the white
12
This firm of engineers, despite its rather dingy quarters, often earns a yearly income running into hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The Young Engineers in Mexico; Or, Fighting the Mine Swindlers
13
The Child is very attractive, as almost always in this artist's work, but the picture as a whole has grown rather dingy.
A Wanderer in Florence
14
We followed him along the corridor and up a rather dingy staircase, when he tapped gently at a door immediately facing us.
A Rogue by Compulsion: An Affair of the Secret Service
15
Everything about the office was plain and rather dingy, but there were a great many file clerks and typists and considerable bustling about.
The Efficiency Expert
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She stood in the centre of the emptiest part of that rather dingy room, as far as possible away from any good or chattel.
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