dingy

Just off the yard, this small, dingy room contained 10 partitioned payphone-style phones along three of the walls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

The address she was given turned out to be a "dingy gross motel", but she says she presumed they would be heading out somewhere else.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

The veil between this world and the next is so thin that Clark can literally walk right through it, from his dingy store into the familiar yellow dimension of the film’s opening sequence.

From Salon ● May 30, 2026

When one, an unsettling nine-minute experiment about a warren of dingy carpets, taffy-yellow walls and gridded drop ceilings clicked with 78 million viewers, he made sequels.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

There was a sheet iron stove in the center of a wooden frame filled with sand, and a faded map on the wall and the dingy plat of a township.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

A delay in getting new rail cars could push back Metro’s expansion and leave passengers stuck with the dingier older cars as hundreds of thousands of people descend on the region for the Games.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2024

Knowles pointed out other upgrades: He airbrushed the paint job on the siding to make it look dingier.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2021

Your clothes “are dingier from when you started washing them until now. It’s happening a little bit at a time. Because you didn’t sort at all, everything becomes abraded.”

From Washington Post ● Aug. 16, 2021

The company hopes to replace some of its dingier, outdated stores with those awash in bright light and clean lines, sometimes nearby.

From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2014

I go down a hall beside the studio audience steps, this hallway dingier than the one we entered the studio through, and open the first door I see.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

Even when the setting is at its dingiest, its directors Thor Freudenthal and Jon Amiel draw the eye to the beauty in the muck, making the loveliest scenes glow all the richer.

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2019

That’s just over $10 a day for everything — in one of the world’s most expensive cities, where the tiniest and dingiest rooms start renting $400 a month.

From Time ● Jun. 21, 2016

The BBC visited the workshop of Graham Cox to see how he brings colour and light to the dingiest of corners.

From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2016

It's by far the smallest and dingiest outlet in the chain: The carpet is beige and worn, the ceilings are low, the lights fluorescent.

From BusinessWeek ● Jan. 20, 2011

Its windows were of stained glass; books of the dingiest hue surrounded you; they lined the walls; and the furniture and carpet matched them in tone.

From 'Me and Nobbles' by Amy Le Feuvre