(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.
Raunchy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Freddie's lyrics were never really even that wild or suggestive, never mind erotic or raunchy.
(2) She said that the highly publicised online spat between Connor and Cyrus – the Hannah Montana star who has gone for an image overhaul with raunchy videos such as Wrecking Ball and a very sexual "twerking" incident at MTV's Video Music Awards – has not helped break the gender stereotype in the industry.
(3) He compared Page 3 to a new exhibition of erotic Japanese paintings at the British Museum in London and said: "This stuff at the British Museum is far more explicit and raunchy."
(4) ▶ Not funny Valentin: Raunchy posters for The Artist star Jean Dujardin's new comedy Les Infidèles have been removed from Parisian billboards after worries that the "sexist" pictures, which show Dujardin nestled between the spreadeagled legs of an anonymous woman , would damage the actor's Oscar prospects.
(5) In its turn, this raunchy and rebellious interpretation came under attack in the 1980s for disregarding the forces of the conservative establishment, underestimating the still formidable power of monarchy, aristocracy and Church of England.
(6) To me it's not about nudity or having a raunchy or raw kind of look… People think if you take pictures of yourself, you're self-obsessed but that's like saying if you write a diary or an autobiography, you're self-obsessed.
(7) ParentPort will act as a one-stop online complaints centre for the public to lodge concerns about all manner of inappropriate material – from risque music videos and raunchy billboard advertising to TV programmes and clothing lines at retailers – to simplify the complaints process.
(8) The four-page document outlines a new "two-tiered case-by-case" approach to sexualised images that will limit advertising with sexual content appearing near schools as well as the how raunchy the imagery is.
(9) Financial paralysis has seen movie production grind to a halt: MGM's only significant release this year was a raunchy comedy, Hot Tub Time Machine , that bombed at the box office.
(10) While Summer renounced her raunchy past, betraying her gay fans in the process, her best records still pulsate with that spirit, the lifeforce of pop itself.
(11) This is the part of the equation that got lost on Miley Cyrus and is probably why so many people found her attempt at raunchiness not just excruciating to watch but also offensive.
(12) She has designed a handbag for Fendi, vases for Lalique, and a perfume bottle for Donna Karan, as well as the obligatory luxury yacht – and even a raunchy range of swimwear, leading to rumours she was starting her own fashion label.
(13) A raunchy TV ad featuring ex-Baywatch star Pamela Anderson has been banned for being sexist and degrading to women.
(14) Is that why he doesn't really make comedies any more – because his comedy-style is more family-friendly than raunchy?
(15) The Radio Times has been criticised by the advertising watchdog for running a raunchy ad for a Russian bride service on its website.
(16) The big hope is that Yang Guang and Tian Tian will produce cubs, but they may need help, counsels the Daily Mail in its coverage: "In 2007, keepers at Northern Thailand's Chiang Mai zoo resorted to sitting a male called Chuang Chuang in front of a TV showing raunchy videos of bears mating in an attempt to spark his interest."
(17) Also likely to end Washington's staid image is HBO's new comedy Washingtonienne, based on Jessica Cutler's raunchy blog, which aims to make Washington's young, single professionals as infamous as Sex and the City made their New York counterparts.
(18) Say what you like about the Eurovision song contest: the staging is spectacular and acts like the raunchy Polish faux-folk girls and Austrian drag queen Conchita Wurst are fun.
(19) The Downing Street-commissioned Bailey review is expected to recommend restrictions on products such as padded bras and high heels for girls as young as 10 and raunchy music videos .
(20) She must have wanted to come across as cool and edgy during her bikini clad VMA performance, but instead the young singer turned herself into a parody of what a female pop star is supposed to be with her misguided attempt at raunchiness.