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synonyms for dingily

  • covertly
  • darkly
  • dully
  • duskily
  • gloomily
  • hazily
  • indecisively
  • indefinably
  • indefinitely
  • indistinctly
  • nebulously
  • secretly
  • tenebrously
  • thickly
  • unobtrusively
  • vaguely
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How to use dingily in a sentence

The floors, the doors, the cornices and mouldings are cheap in material, dingily garish in colour.
AMERICA TO-DAY, OBSERVATIONS AND REFLECTIONSWILLIAM ARCHER
All blacks and carmines—all stolidly sober and brilliantly drunk—all dingily bathless: deeply savagely quietly human.
I, MARY MACLANEMARY MACLANE
She had saved him from the second-rate, dingy life he had been so dingily ready to accept.
ROUGH-HEWNDOROTHY CANFIELD
Now the stateliest craft that ride the Cockney surge are the rackety penny packet and dingily plebeian coal barge.
THE HAUNTS OF OLD COCKAIGNEALEX THOMPSON
It is like a grotto gaudily but dingily decorated, or a vast circus-tent curtained off in hangings of those colors.
FAMILIAR SPANISH TRAVELSW. D. HOWELLS
In a dingily furnished room, sitting on a molting, plush sofa I saw the curious little man to whom I had so taken months ago.
THE CITY IN THE CLOUDSC. RANGER GULL
The window curtains had long since yielded their fresh colour to the sunshine and hung dingily in the gaslight.
THE LONELY UNICORNALEC WAUGH
It was a place rather dingily lighted, the darkest portions having incandescent lights, filled with machines and work benches.
SISTER CARRIETHEODORE DREISER
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 CHEKHOVANTON CHEKHOV
She drove to a little square too dingily middle class to require a policeman.
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WORDS RELATED TO DINGILY

  • covertly
  • darkly
  • dingily
  • dully
  • duskily
  • gloomily
  • hazily
  • indecisively
  • indefinably
  • indefinitely
  • indistinctly
  • nebulously
  • secretly
  • tenebrously
  • thickly
  • unobtrusively
  • vaguely
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.