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

In the '90s, when Bruce Rogers started his career, U. S. books were as dingily printed as they were apt to be turgidly written.

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

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

Fortunately, however, Concetta has a godmother who, although a working-woman, dingily clad, and apparently hardly able to support herself, is supposed to have money hidden away somewhere.

From Brenda's Bargain A Story for Girls by Reed, Helen Leah