dreggy
Example Sentences
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Sandy had no job and lived in a downscale apartment in a dreggy section of town.
From Salon • Nov. 30, 2014
It opposed ice-water morality with the dreggy wine of French "realism."
From Time Magazine Archive
Some of the pools were so thick and dreggy that no one knew what linked in the bottom of them.
From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye
This time, the night so thick, it was impossible to tell the precise moment when the creature emerged from his dreggy pool and began to drag his coils toward hall Heorot.
From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye
And then he felt a sudden, poking sort Of sickness at the heart, as though some cold And scaly pain were blindly nosing it Down in the dreggy darkness of his breast.
From A Child-World by Riley, James Whitcomb
