1. dingy - Noun
2. dingy - Adjective
4. dingy - Adjective Satellite
Alt. of Dinghy
Soiled; sullied; of a dark or dusky color; dark brown; dirty.
Source: Webster's dictionaryOne day I'll be old, dead, forgotten. And at this very moment, while I'm sitting here thinking these things, a man in a dingy hotel room is thinking, "I will always be here." Simone de Beauvoir
Just because things get a little dingy at the subatomic level doesn't mean all bets are off. Murray Gell-Mann
A mollusk is a cheap edition [of man] with a suppression of the costlier illustrations, designed for dingy circulation, for shelving in an oyster-bank or among the seaweed. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Christ," he remarked, puzzled, "this is a dingy way to die. Malcolm Lowry
My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world. V. S. Naipaul
He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was dust. He danced along the dingy days, And this bequest of wings Was but a book. What liberty A loosened spirit brings! Emily Dickinson