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Meanings of dinginess in английском

испанский
deslucimiento

Discoloration due to dirtiness.

deslucimiento
Usage of dinginess in английском
1
He had taken in shabby carpets, furniture, faded walls, general dim dinginess.
The Head of the House of Coombe
2
She had hated dinginess, and it was her fate to be dingy.
The House of Mirth
3
His fresh young nature revolted at the dinginess and bareness of the surroundings.
The Fortunes of Oliver Horn
4
But for these, the general aspect would have been one of unbroken dinginess.
True to his Colours / The Life that Wears Best
5
That was interesting, but did not compensate for the dinginess of the surroundings.
The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911
6
Neither the dust nor the dinginess was seen by Laura.
Peggy-Alone
7
And her dress was indefinite in his memory-anamorphous dinginess.
Love and Mr. Lewisham
8
To this affluent, creative mind dinginess and dimness were not.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 / A Magazin...
9
I thought there would be a temporary dip into dinginess, but that was all.
The Soul of a Bishop
10
The place appalled him-itsgloom, its dinginess, its somber quiet.
The Street of Seven Stars
11
The light revealed the dinginess of the little room.
The Cow Puncher
12
There should be no dirt or dinginess in the house, if she could help it.
Harvest
13
Its dinginess is venerable; its relics are illustrious.
The Nation in a Nutshell
14
There is something cheery in its very dinginess, and something free and elfin in its very insignificance.
The Wisdom of Father Brown
15
The foreigner is as bigoted to his original dinginess and discomfort, as the Turk to the Koran.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 18...
16
Even in the dull dinginess of the Hare and Hounds, though, locating his man was not difficult.
The street philosopher
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Translations for dinginess
испанский
deslucimiento
Dinginess through the time