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TOEFL IELTS BNC: 16199 COCA: 14979

dingy

1 ENTRIES FOUND:
dingy /ˈdɪnʤi/ adjective
dingier; dingiest
dingy
/ˈdɪnʤi/
adjective
dingier; dingiest
Learner's definition of DINGY
[also more dingy; most dingy]
: dark and dirty : not fresh or clean昏暗而肮脏的

— dinginess

noun [noncount]
TOEFL IELTS BNC: 16199 COCA: 14979

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 adverb
dinginess noun

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

Time Traveler
The first known use of dingy was in 1691
TOEFL IELTS BNC: 16199 COCA: 14979

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