From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishdingydin‧gy /ˈdɪndʒi/ adjective (comparative dingier, superlative dingiest) DARKdark, dirty, and in bad condition a dingy room a dingy side-street► see thesaurus at dirty —dinginess noun [uncountable]
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dingy• The room was damp and dingy.• Normally Roberto shunned the low-class and dingy.• However long she had been there, the whole stretch was a dingy aching trail of work and beatings.• a dark, dingy basement• The girl felt a call coming like a flaming arrow across the dingy coffee bar.• Through the dingy gloom of this motionless train, I catch a first glimpse of my fellow travellers.• The room told me nothing. just a bare, impersonal space in a cheap, dingy hotel.• He ate lunch in a dingy little cafe next to the station.• Political consultants used to be little-known operatives working in dingy offices trying to elect better-known candidates.• The newsagent stood next to the bookmakers in a parade of dingy shops.Origin dingy (1700-1800) Perhaps from dungy “dirty” ((15-19 centuries)), from dung 