(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.
Grubby
Definition:
(a.) Dirty; unclean.
(n.) Any species of Cottus; a sculpin.
Example Sentences:
(1) "We were not in the army," says Sunday Sienda, 21, wearing a grubby Barcelona football shirt.
(2) "I am an old lady, and have many grandchildren," she says, pointing to the gaunt, grubby faces baking around her in the tent.
(3) They say that she didn't work for it but some people say that she fought for it," he said huddled over a small wooden box containing hundreds of grubby looking Liberian notes.
(4) If drug cartel kingpin El Chapo stays in Mexico, 'absolutely nothing' will change Read more A joint police and military operation seized Guzmán at a hotel after a battle which left five dead and six captured, including the cartel leader who appeared dazed and grubby in photographs.
(5) – rather than on the man’s indecent entitlement, grubbiness and criminality.” 'These women are not statistics' – deaths in Australia in 2015 Read more Surely Lay would cringe, then, at comments made by Victorian homicide squad head, detective inspector Mick Hughes, following the brutal and seemingly random killing of 17-year-old schoolgirl, Masa Vukotic, in broad daylight while she was out walking as part of her usual exercise routine.
(6) The BBC should be ashamed of single-handedly doing a racist, fascist party the biggest favour in its grubby history.
(7) A chink, the merest pinprick of light, has opened up in the grubby soap opera of Sepp Blatter, Fifa and the future of football.
(8) When first confronted by Arab political revolutions, Britain vacillated, reluctant to abandon useful and grubby friendship with corrupt regimes.
(9) John McDonnell , the shadow chancellor, said: “The behaviour of the chancellor over the last 11 days calls into question his fitness for office he now holds.” The budget was the result of the “grubby, incompetent manipulations of a political chancellor”, he added.
(10) I'm not sure what sort of woman "we" expect to suffer domestic abuse, but those of us who spend too much of our lives reading celebrity autobiographies are not quite as shocked by proof that domestic abuse is not solely "the grubby problem of the inarticulate and poorly educated, who can't eloquently express their frustration, who are not self-aware or emotionally intelligent enough to thrash out their differences via a civilised heart-to-heart, rather than simply with a thrashing".
(11) Senator Conroy has opened his account as Labor’s defence spokesman with a grubby and pre meditated slur against one of our most respected 3-star lieutenant general officers, accusing him of a political cover-up no less.
(12) The Scottish first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, characterised it as a “grubby, shameless” deal.
(13) Two decades on from denationalisation, and with oversight entrusted to technocratic regulators who regard themselves as untouchable as judges, the very idea of grubby politics intervening directly on what businesses charge families for fuel had come to seem unthinkable.
(14) McCann approves of a bawdy drinking song recorded by the Hold Steady , and there are grubby cameos from Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol and Will Champion of Coldplay.
(15) 12.55pm BST Mo Yan's China: 'a world of magic, sexual exploitation, ignorance and senseless violence' In his top 10 books on China , Paul Mason chose Mo's Big Breasts and Wide Hips as his number two, calling it Mo's masterpiece: China's 20th century told symbolically through the story of one man, from birth to maturity; an adult who cannot wean himself from his mother's milk, assailed by wave upon wave of misfortune, poverty, war, imprisonment and finally release into the grubby capitalism of the 1990s.
(16) The Trumpian “so” also works similarly in the opposite direction: to intensify negatives without descending to grubby detail.
(17) Beyond lies Kamrangir Char, a vast slum where clouds of acrid smoke from burning rubbish hide tenements packed with thin men, anxious women and grubby children with tubercular coughs.
(18) Grubby green fingers For small children, the magic of planting a seed and watching it grow (watch out for overzealous waterers) may even trump the CBeebies schedule.
(19) It feels grubby to enter such a debate as Aleppo burns, but the revision of history demands a response.
(20) There are outliers in the discourse, but asylum seekers are condemned by some as “vermin” and “ like cockroaches ”, or sneered at as “filthy”, “grubby” or “penniless”.