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单词 dingily
释义

dingy

adjective

din·​gy ˈdin-jē How to pronounce dingy (audio)
dingier; dingiest
1
: dirty, unclean
dingy fingernails
2
: shabby, squalid
a dingy hotel room
dingily
ˈdin-jə-lē How to pronounce dingy (audio)
adverb
dinginess
ˈdin-jē-nəs How to pronounce dingy (audio)
noun

Synonyms

  • bedraggled
  • befouled
  • begrimed
  • bemired
  • besmirched
  • black
  • blackened
  • cruddy
  • dirty
  • draggled
  • dusty
  • filthy
  • foul
  • grimy
  • grotty [chiefly British]
  • grubby
  • grungy
  • mucky
  • muddy
  • nasty
  • smudged
  • smutty
  • soiled
  • sordid
  • stained
  • sullied
  • unclean
  • uncleanly
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Example Sentences

He's been staying in a dingy motel. the bed sheets were pretty dingy so we threw them in the laundry pile
Recent Examples on the Web The old Defender was built in a dark, dingy part of Land Rover's Solihull factory to tolerances which could be politely described as highly variable. Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 2 Mar. 2022 The halls are dingy but lined with students’ Inuit sculptures and dreamcatchers. NBC News, 14 Oct. 2020 My aluminum cookware has become dull and dingy looking. Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2020 The scene of Stubbs wearing a tacky tourist T-shirt drinking a beer in a dingy apartment looks like very authentic Stubbs to me — this, not pretending to be a security chief patrolling the theme park, seems like Stubbs’ natural habitat. James Hibberd, EW.com, 6 Apr. 2020 One set of stairs descends to the central Kim family’s dingy semi-basement apartment in modern-day Seoul, while another ascends to the front door of the ultrawealthy Park family, for whom the cash-strapped Kims work. Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2019 Instead Mr Tillerson had to duck into the headquarters of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, a dingy office that shares a building with a shuttered Japanese restaurant in an unremarkable corner of the capital. The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018 At the beginning of the film, a laconic trucker named Gorō, a Robert Mitchum type in a plaid shirt and cowboy hat, stops for a bite at a dingy roadside ramen shop. Sophie Pinkham, The New York Review of Books, 8 May 2020 Remember that the dingier the water, the slower the approach should be. Andrew Pegman, Field & Stream, 10 Apr. 2020 See More

Word History

Etymology

origin unknown

First Known Use

1691, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Kids Definition

dingy

adjective

din·​gy ˈdin-jē How to pronounce dingy (audio)
dingier; dingiest
: rather dark and dirty
a dingy room

dingily

adverb

as in foully

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • foully
  • nastily
  • filthily
  • dirtily
  • shabbily
  • grubbily
  • dowdily
  • sleazily
  • messily
  • untidily
  • slatternly
  • sloppily
  • slovenly
  • chaotically

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • sharply
  • smart
  • smartly
  • neatly
  • sprucely
  • orderly
  • carefully
  • tidily
  • fashionably
  • nattily
  • fastidiously
  • cleanly
  • meticulously
  • modishly
  • immaculately
  • spotlessly
  • fussily
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