Synonyms for dingily
| Grammar : Adv |
| Spell : din-jee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈdɪn dʒi |
Top 10 synonyms for dingily Other synonyms for the word dingily
Définition of dingily
Origin :- 1736, Kentish dialect, "dirty," of uncertain origin, but perhaps related to dung. The noun dinge (1816) is a back-formation.
- As in obscurely : adv dimly
- She had saved him from the second-rate, dingy life he had been so dingily ready to accept.
- Extract from : « Rough-Hewn » by Dorothy Canfield
- All blacks and carmines—all stolidly sober and brilliantly drunk—all dingily bathless: deeply savagely quietly human.
- Extract from : « I, Mary MacLane » by Mary MacLane
- She drove to a little square too dingily middle class to require a policeman.
- Extract from : « The Cup of Fury » by Rupert Hughes
- The floors, the doors, the cornices and mouldings are cheap in material, dingily garish in colour.
- Extract from : « America To-day, Observations and Reflections » by William Archer
- In a dingily furnished room, sitting on a molting, plush sofa I saw the curious little man to whom I had so taken months ago.
- Extract from : « The City in the Clouds » by C. Ranger Gull
- Now the stateliest craft that ride the Cockney surge are the rackety penny packet and dingily plebeian coal barge.
- Extract from : « The Haunts of Old Cockaigne » by Alex Thompson
- It is like a grotto gaudily but dingily decorated, or a vast circus-tent curtained off in hangings of those colors.
- Extract from : « Familiar Spanish Travels » by W. D. Howells
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