dingily
Example Sentences
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Like Powell, Kynaston is attracted by people who make compromises, accept second-best, live dingily and submit quietly without relinquishing hope.
From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2013
Hand-held cameras on dingily lighted sets catch life on the run; overlapping conversations lend Hill Street the texture of a Robert Altman locker room.
From Time Magazine Archive
"The most squalid public environment of the U.S.: dank, dingily lit, fetid, raucous with screechingclatter."
From Time Magazine Archive
The 14-page News of the World still clings to a dingily archaic makeup, small, unimaginative headlines, and few pictures.
From Time Magazine Archive
Compared with the eggs of the other Pericrocoti, they are very dingily coloured.
From The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 by Hume, Allan Octavian
