(superl.) Soiled; sullied; of a dark or dusky color; dark brown; dirty.
Example Sentences:
(1) Halifax District Hospital's Medical Library, Daytona Beach, Florida was altered from two dingy rooms to a modern, well-equipped Medical Library twice its former size by its maintenance men in six months time, with the help of the librarian's sketches and an architect student from the junior college to draw the plans.A complete renovation was done, eighteen-inch walls between rooms being demolished, plumbing, ceiling, and windows removed.
(2) When it is not clogged with weekend traffic, Container – the English word is used in Arabic – is a desolate spot: a lonely stretch of asphalt, four dingy tollbooth-like structures painted white and green, a few bored Israeli soldiers with automatic rifles.
(3) Ian Napp, a British former chef, had been photographed with an inflatable dingy in a field "just in case" there was a tsunami.
(4) The website shows the rooms are dingy and tasteless: turquoise carpets, small windows, chintz bedspreads.
(5) Their first shelter was a dingy basement in a slum far from São Paulo's bustling financial centre.
(6) By now his own preference was for the interiors of the Paris Opera, the off-stage spaces, the dingy classrooms and peeling walls.
(7) Then, it provides a neat metaphor for the realist's quest for authenticity, the dingy truth of dingy classrooms that lies behind the Opera's glamorous stage façades.
(8) "Suddenly the pop star takes off her sheep's clothing and you see the kind of dingy, underground, metal-loving girl from New York who wants to talk about equal rights and go on and on and on about loving yourself.
(9) Also in Hackney, the National Trust property Sutton House is the venue for an immersive, LGBT-friendly cinema event Amy Grimehouse , and just down the road, dingy club Vogue Fabrics hosts both straight and gay club nights throughout the week.
(10) These prices would be good value for a pretty ordinary B&B in a regional town – for chic digs in London, where you can easily pay £100 for access to a small dingy moth sanctuary, they’re basically unbeatable.
(11) His dingy green-walled apartment is now almost stripped bare following a police raid, with the only signs of its former warmth the photos of his sons and daughter left on one wall.
(12) The correspondence seen by the Guardian also contains the invitation to Madikizela-Mandela sent by Cikizwa Dingi, personal assistant to ANC national spokesman, Jackson Mthembu.
(13) Muhammad told the Guardian he lost everything except the clothes on his back on a journey that included three terrifying hours in the Mediterranean when the dingy he was travelling in between Greece and Turkey capsized.
(14) Every institution now has to have a public face, to justify itself: MI6 has emerged from a dingy building in Lambeth to occupy a glitzy palace on the Thames.
(15) Standup comedians tend to be a bit frustrated and have to find a different way of showing off – on stage in a dark dingy club.
(16) One night the fun had started at the caves and had moved on to a dingy little club down the road.
(17) Playing punk rock shows for 10 people in a dingy bar made sense to me.
(18) I know he is still there, in his dingy South Bohan apartment, waiting for me to rejoin him.
(19) While the old library could be dingy in places, the floors of the new building are washed with daylight, with a continuous line of desks around the floor-to-ceiling windows.
(20) The experiment is taking place in a sprawling hangar at Moscow's Institute for Medical and Biological Problems, in a suburb of dingy tower blocks and poplar trees.
Filthy
Definition:
(superl.) Defiled with filth, whether material or moral; nasty; dirty; polluted; foul; impure; obscene.
Example Sentences:
(1) It led to a filthy, overcrowded camp housing 43 Bangladeshi workers at the heart of the polluted, industrial Musaffah area, next to car repair and welding businesses.
(2) You'd never ask anybody else how much they make, but because I am in a position where you are 'filthy rich' from a young age, it becomes a curiosity.
(3) I congratulated him on the upsurge in his fortunes, such as his sideways move from squeezing, baking and daubing his filthy and infantile clay urns into broadcasting on the prestigious Channel 4 network.
(4) I climb the filthy stairwell and enter a small, dark reception area.
(5) Our people do not understand.” Chechnya’s press and information minister, Jambulat Umarov, wrote on Instagram that Novaya Gazeta should “apologise to the Chechen people” for the “filthy provocation” of suggesting gay people existed in Chechnya.
(6) But the filthy fiver, says Dr Ron Cutler, who led the study, could be the spark that lights the fire of an epidemic.
(7) His New York is a far scruffier place, with the grimy, old, Midnight Cowboy NYC rubbing against the gentrified Upper East Side, best expressed in an ordeal of a scene where Louie witnesses a virtuoso performance by a violinist while, behind the performer, an obese homeless man proceeds to disrobe and start washing himself with a bottle of filthy water.
(8) There is heavy traffic, swollen by often badly maintained and old trucks and buses; huge landfill rubbish dumps which are sometimes set on fire; filthy industries just a few miles from the city; two coal-fired power stations; nearby intensive construction which generates choking clouds of dust; and, seasonally, smoke from crop burning in fields from farmland in neighbouring states.
(9) I want to say sweet, silly things, and pat the little heads of people who, living in a filthy hell, can create such beauty."
(10) If you can kill a disbelieving American or European especially the spiteful and filthy French or an Australian, or a Canadian, or any other disbeliever from the disbelievers waging war, including the citizens of the countries that entered into a coalition against the Islamic State, then rely upon Allah, and kill him in any manner or way however it may be.
(11) A federal anti-racism commission called that a bad decision that would have "serious consequences", In another ruling on racism issues, the court said earlier this year that calling someone "foreign swine" or "filthy asylum seeker" may be insulting, but because the expressions are widely used insults in the German language, they do not constitute racist attacks.
(12) Or embrace the filthy weather with something more extreme.
(13) "By all accounts, it was dark and filthy, with an old bus-seat in place of a sofa.
(14) Under a pink mosquito dome in a shack among the filthy alleyways of sector two of the Malakal protection of civilians (PoC) camp lies 11-day-old Pul.
(15) The drinking water tanks are so filthy the pupils bring their own water.
(16) In The God Delusion I have a section called "Religious education as a part of literary culture" in which I list 129 biblical phrases which any cultivated English speaker will instantly recognise and many use without knowing their provenance: the salt of the earth; go the extra mile; I wash my hands of it; filthy lucre; through a glass darkly; wolf in sheep's clothing; hide your light under a bushel; no peace for the wicked; how are the mighty fallen.
(17) "Sanitary conditions at the prison are calculated to make the prisoner feel like a disempowered, filthy animal.
(18) When I was young, vegetarianism was still a cult activity practised by filthy, bendy-boned hippies or mawkishly sentimental teenage girls who would probably be keen to renege on the whole non-meat-eating deal if only they had the strength to lift a whole steak into a pan.
(19) It is also an inversion of the original New Labour platform, which sounded radical about society and the state – keen on new rights for gay people, keen on devolution, keen on human rights – but which was also fiercely pro-market and pro-City, "intensely relaxed" about people being "filthy rich".
(20) When I finally reached the top floor, the long corridor was filthy with dust that looked like it had accumulated over several months.