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 Parleys live in a dingily magnificent mansion of Beacon Street.
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
Yonder dingily white remnant of a huge snow-bank,—which will yet cumber the sidewalk till the latter days of March,—over or through that wintry waste must I stride onward.
From Beneath an Umbrella (From "Twice Told Tales") by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
