(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.
Unkempt
Definition:
(a.) Not combed; disheveled; as, an urchin with unkempt hair.
(a.) Fig.; Not smoothed; unpolished; rough.
Example Sentences:
(1) While speaking to a group of drivers in the park, an unkempt lady interrupted us with taunts.
(2) Isolation and analysis of mutations affecting the unkempt gene, including complete deletions of this gene, indicate that there is no zygotic requirement for unkempt during embryogenesis, presumably due to the contribution of maternally supplied RNA, although the gene is essential during post-embryonic development.
(3) In a typical outbreak, 5% of the pullets were stunted and listless with unkempt feathers.
(4) Unkempt, exhausted families arrive every few minutes at the Sacred Heart church hall in downtown McAllen, eight miles from the Mexico border in the Rio Grande Valley.
(5) The eternal undergraduate, all rumpled shirt, baggy cords, student specs and unkempt hair, he looks as though he's just got out of bed - which he has.
(6) Let’s just be brutally honest about that stereotype: an eccentric bohemian hippy, unkempt beard, John Lennon-style glasses, wading through muesli in dishevelled sandals.
(7) Kate was in jeans, looking a little unkempt and sleep-deprived, telling bystanders that the month-old Prince George "is with Granny at the moment" and "sleeping for now, fingers crossed!"
(8) Built like a truck, and as dishevelled as a trucker, he used his frame and his unkemptness with immense dexterity.
(9) As the prosecution spoke, Tsarnaev looked almost relaxed, his goatee trimmed, his hair fluffy and unkempt, wearing a grey suit and open-necked shirt.
(10) The unkempt gene of Drosophila encodes a set of embryonic RNAs, which are abundant during early stages of embryogenesis and are present ubiquitously in most somatic tissues from the syncytial embryo through stage 15 of embryogenesis.
(11) Expression of unkempt RNAs becomes restricted predominantly to the central nervous system in stages 16 and early 17.
(12) A burgeoning excrement problem In a nearby grassy plaza kids are tearing around a playground and some office workers kick a soccer ball about near several unkempt men and women who are sleeping or visibly high.
(13) But while Sanders continues to gain momentum and money, political observers remain wary of whether the unkempt septuagenarian socialist can actually defeat Clinton in the era of almost unlimited campaign spending, or whether Democratic voters are just enjoying what one political operative in New Hampshire this week called “a summer fling”.
(14) Randomly approached lower-ranking enlistees and draftees are much more likely to complain about their disease, even if minor, and are more likely to refuse to shave and be unkempt even without permission to grow a beard (in contravention of Army regulations).
(15) The room was full of sunlight, and now I saw him clearly: a stocky man, thirties, unkempt, with a round friendly face and unruly hair.
(16) Domestic chicks experimentally infected with Echinostoma caproni for 2 weeks showed a dilated ileum, unkempt feathers, watery diarrhoea, and weight loss.
(17) In that part of the forest is the unkempt and unloved world of civil service pay and reward.
(18) At that time, 78% of respondents thought that the vogue among young people of cultivating an unkempt look was past or on the wane (Table 1.).
(19) Both genes modify the normal smooth coat to a more upright, somewhat unkempt pelage.
(20) True, you could spot Hannah's backcombed bob and Dot's unkempt bird's nest in silhouette.