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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

They could end up nursing a grudge that they paid $200 a night for a space that resembles a dingy roadside motel rather than a boutique experience.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 3, 2026

As dispassionate buyers who paid cash and didn’t quibble over ugly paint or dingy carpet, they beat out regular buyers without having to outbid them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2026

They started small - their first office was so dingy that Armani took the shades off the lamps in order to see the fabrics.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2025

“I noticed you're about to lose one,” he said, nodding at the dingy white bracelets around Pong's left wrist.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat

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

Manhattan has dressing rooms dingier than the one in the basement of the Actors Temple Theater.

From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2023

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

Everything looked dingier and quieter than he had remembered it.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

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

It was not overwhelmed and eclipsed by the murkiest fog of prejudice, or by the dingiest antagonism of sinful pride.

From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by Jowett, John Henry