dingy
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1. dingy - Noun
2. dingy - Adjective
4. dingy - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Alt. of Dinghy
Soiled; sullied; of a dark or dusky color; dark brown; dirty.
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One 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."
Just because things get a little dingy at the subatomic level doesn't mean all bets are off.
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.
Christ," he remarked, puzzled, "this is a dingy way to die.
My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.
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!