Thesaurus / dingy
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Otherwise, he’s five-foot-seven, he walks around carrying a New Yorker tote, and his favorite jacket is a dingy yellow puffy he found in a box of free stuff.
WHAT THE MEN WHO LOVE MY BOYFRIEND TAUGHT ME ABOUT SOCIAL HIERARCHYCKEYESSEPTEMBER 3, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEI walked past an elevator with a hand-drawn picture of three stick figures to show people it led to Ross, and a sign written in marker directing me to the dingy stairs.
I TRIED TO LIVE OFF WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESSES. TURNS OUT, MEN STILL RUN EVERYTHINGALANA SEMUELSJULY 21, 2021TIMEWe spoke to some self-professed karaoke lovers about why they feel so passionately about these dingy bars, and what not singing together for over a year has meant for them.
THE YEAR WITHOUT KARAOKETONY CHOW (TONY.CHOW@FIVETHIRTYEIGHT.COM)MAY 13, 2021FIVETHIRTYEIGHTYou need a whitening kit, I tell my teeth, which look dingy when I smile at a colleague’s joke.
THE REASON “ZOOM FATIGUE” HITS WOMEN HARDER THAN MENSARAH TODDAPRIL 16, 2021QUARTZHowever, thousands of others, mostly impoverished women and children, trudge to dingy, crowded factories in cities such as New York and Los Angeles — and wherever there is concentrated cheap immigrant labor.
THE TRIANGLE FIRE AND THE FIGHT FOR $15CHRISTOPHER GORHAMMARCH 19, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThey were for the most part dingy, but as they were nearly always open it did not make so much difference.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINIt was there also that she ate, keeping her belongings in a rare old buffet, dingy and battered from a hundred years of use.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINIt is up a lot of very dingy back-staircases and down a lot of very dingy passages.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOLUME 158, APRIL 28, 1920VARIOUSHe wore moccasins and buckskin leggings, and a dingy-blue flannel shirt, open at the throat.
MOTOR MATT'S "CENTURY" RUNSTANLEY R. MATTHEWSThose two spots 92 of colour against the dingy wood panels dressed up the desolation wonderfully.
THE IDYL OF TWIN FIRESWALTER PRICHARD EATONWORDS RELATED TO DINGY
- badly dressed
- badly worn
- battered
- broken
- contemptible
- crude
- desultory
- dilapidated
- dingy
- disorganized
- down-at-the-heel
- fragmented
- frayed
- frazzled
- full of holes
- in holes
- in rags
- in tatters
- irregular
- jagged
- mean
- moth-eaten
- notched
- patched
- poor
- poorly made
- rent
- rough
- rugged
- scraggy
- seedy
- serrated
- shabby
- shaggy
- shoddy
- shredded
- tacky
- tattered
- tatty
- threadbare
- torn
- uneven
- unfinished
- unkempt
- unpressed
- worse for wear
- abandoned
- beat up
- below par
- broken-down
- crumbling
- debilitated
- decrepit
- derelict
- deserted
- desolate
- dilapidated
- dingy
- dog-eared
- down-at-the-heel
- drained
- enervated
- exhausted
- fatigued
- forsaken
- frowzy
- in a bad way
- neglected
- old
- out of condition
- peaked
- ramshackle
- ratty
- rickety
- seedy
- tacky
- tattered
- tired
- tumble-down
- uncared-for
- under the weather
- unhealthy
- untended
- used-up
- weak
- weary
- worn-out
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