Dingy
/ˈdɪndʒi/adjective
Dark and dull, often dirty.
He lived in a dingy apartment in the worst part of town.
Often appears as...
- dingy room
- dingy clothes
noun
A type of small boat.
He rowed the dingy to the shore.
Often appears as...
- row the dingy
- in the dingy
adjective
Dark and dull, often dirty.
He lived in a dingy apartment in the worst part of town.
Often appears as...
- dingy room
- dingy clothes
noun
A type of small boat.
He rowed the dingy to the shore.
Often appears as...
- row the dingy
- in the dingy
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Tone
Describes places or objects negatively, suggesting neglect or lack of care.
The hotel's dingy lighting gave the lobby an unwelcoming atmosphere.
Pro Tip 2/3Deterioration Implied
Implies that something was once in better condition but has seen better days.
His once bright backpack was now a dingy shade of gray.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Dirty
Can describe a dull lack of brightness without implying filth.
She disliked the room's dingy walls, vowing to repaint them.
Compare with
drabdullfadegrimymurkyshabbysqualidtarnishunkempt
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Depression, the secret...
They didn't take people out in the sunshine where you begin to feel better. They didn't include drumming or music to get people's blood going. They didn't involve the whole community. They didn't externalize the depression as an invasive spirit. Instead what they did was they took people one at a time into dingy little rooms and had them talk for an hour
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Gordon Fishes for Eels PIPE...
Is that yours? Yes. Yes, it's my beauty. That is a beautiful boat. Thank you. Oh, I'm so excited, honestly. You're not going fishing from my sailing boat. What? We're not going fishing from my sailing boat. We're going fishing with my father. Stop it. In that dingy? Yeah. It's a traditional way of fishing. Yeah, but hold on a minute.
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The harm reduction model...
Let's take supervised injection sites, for example. Probably the most misunderstood health intervention ever. All we are saying is that allowing people to inject in a clean, dry space with fresh needles, surrounded by people who care is a lot better than injecting in a dingy alley,
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Safari Live - Day 376 PIPE...
until it gets a little bit more dark and dingy the problem is is the impalas are not gonna stay here until until it's pitch black they're gonna start moving out of this area because they know it's much more dangerous for them to be in here at night then it is during the course of
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Interview: Tim Flannery...
considered sacred the beliefs varied from place to place across the island but in the case of dingy so that large black and white animal that is considered sacred by the money people up in that area and they say that when they come across the animal it raises its
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Lisa Kristine: Photos...
Each has small, private rooms, where the slaves, women, along with young girls and boys, some as young as seven years old, are forced to entertain the clients, encouraging them to buy more food and alcohol. Each cubicle is dark and dingy,
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Safari Live - Day 35 PIPE...
come out and she's moving quickly now and he's low to the ground so she's just behind that thicket slowly but surely moving down towards the scrub here now it's getting dark and dingy and the perfect light for her to do so it's also
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Prohibition: Banning...
in support of a particular political faction. Tens of thousands of illegal bars, known as "speakeasies," began serving alcohol. They ranged from dingy basement bars to elaborate dance-halls.
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Aparna Hegde: The...
dingy, overcrowded clinic just to get a minute with me, a harried, overworked resident doctor, meant that she never came back, only to die in labor months later. I was wracked with guilt.
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Locked Up in Venezuela...
third-world country that was my country I shouldn't have been there they took us to this apartment and the apartment just look dingy like nothing I'd expected I
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Depression, the secret...
They didn't take people out in the sunshine where you begin to feel better. They didn't include drumming or music to get people's blood going. They didn't involve the whole community. They didn't externalize the depression as an invasive spirit. Instead what they did was they took people one at a time into dingy little rooms and had them talk for an hour
Video examples
Gordon Fishes for Eels PIPE...
Is that yours? Yes. Yes, it's my beauty. That is a beautiful boat. Thank you. Oh, I'm so excited, honestly. You're not going fishing from my sailing boat. What? We're not going fishing from my sailing boat. We're going fishing with my father. Stop it. In that dingy? Yeah. It's a traditional way of fishing. Yeah, but hold on a minute.
Video examples
The harm reduction model...
Let's take supervised injection sites, for example. Probably the most misunderstood health intervention ever. All we are saying is that allowing people to inject in a clean, dry space with fresh needles, surrounded by people who care is a lot better than injecting in a dingy alley,
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 376 PIPE...
until it gets a little bit more dark and dingy the problem is is the impalas are not gonna stay here until until it's pitch black they're gonna start moving out of this area because they know it's much more dangerous for them to be in here at night then it is during the course of
Video examples
Interview: Tim Flannery...
considered sacred the beliefs varied from place to place across the island but in the case of dingy so that large black and white animal that is considered sacred by the money people up in that area and they say that when they come across the animal it raises its
Video examples
Lisa Kristine: Photos...
Each has small, private rooms, where the slaves, women, along with young girls and boys, some as young as seven years old, are forced to entertain the clients, encouraging them to buy more food and alcohol. Each cubicle is dark and dingy,
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 35 PIPE...
come out and she's moving quickly now and he's low to the ground so she's just behind that thicket slowly but surely moving down towards the scrub here now it's getting dark and dingy and the perfect light for her to do so it's also
Video examples
Prohibition: Banning...
in support of a particular political faction. Tens of thousands of illegal bars, known as "speakeasies," began serving alcohol. They ranged from dingy basement bars to elaborate dance-halls.
Video examples
Aparna Hegde: The...
dingy, overcrowded clinic just to get a minute with me, a harried, overworked resident doctor, meant that she never came back, only to die in labor months later. I was wracked with guilt.
Video examples
Locked Up in Venezuela...
third-world country that was my country I shouldn't have been there they took us to this apartment and the apartment just look dingy like nothing I'd expected I
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Bari Weiss
American Editor
The best movie theater in the world is in a dingy basement on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The worn seats are painful. There are probably bigger screens in half the apartments in the complex above the theater. And forget Fandango; the theater barely has a website. You want to buy a ticket? Get in line.
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Kali Uchis
Colombian Musician
The first time I did a show, I definitely didn't get any money. My friend just let me do this show. I was so nervous: my mic didn't work, and I was like, 'Urgh.' It was terrible. It was a dingy club off of the highway, but all these people came. It was packed out.
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Pamela Druckerman
American Writer
When I left for college, I put Miami behind me and tried to have a life of the mind. I got a graduate degree. I traveled. I even married a fellow writer, whose only real estate was a dingy one-bedroom apartment in Paris, where we lived.
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Bhagat Singh
Indian Activist
Those revolutionaries who have, by chance, escaped the gallows should live and show to the world that they cannot only embrace gallows for the ideal but also bear the worst type of tortures in the dark, dingy prison cells.
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Lauren Southern
Canadian Activist
I don't know why legal immigration even exists anymore when I can just put on some bronzer, get on a dingy boat, and just show up at the beaches of Sicily with the Koran in my hand.
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John Hughes
American Director
Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie!
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Joe Russo
American Director
I think there's a lot of people in their dingy boats in the middle of the ocean pining for the days of closed-ended narrative.
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V. S. Naipaul
Trinidadian Novelist
My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.
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John Dyer
Artist
I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats.
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Pink
American Musician
I love the shows that are in dingy little dark clubs, smoky, no production whatsoever.
Quote examples
Bari Weiss
American Editor
The best movie theater in the world is in a dingy basement on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The worn seats are painful. There are probably bigger screens in half the apartments in the complex above the theater. And forget Fandango; the theater barely has a website. You want to buy a ticket? Get in line.
Quote examples
Kali Uchis
Colombian Musician
The first time I did a show, I definitely didn't get any money. My friend just let me do this show. I was so nervous: my mic didn't work, and I was like, 'Urgh.' It was terrible. It was a dingy club off of the highway, but all these people came. It was packed out.
Quote examples
Pamela Druckerman
American Writer
When I left for college, I put Miami behind me and tried to have a life of the mind. I got a graduate degree. I traveled. I even married a fellow writer, whose only real estate was a dingy one-bedroom apartment in Paris, where we lived.
Quote examples
Bhagat Singh
Indian Activist
Those revolutionaries who have, by chance, escaped the gallows should live and show to the world that they cannot only embrace gallows for the ideal but also bear the worst type of tortures in the dark, dingy prison cells.
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Lauren Southern
Canadian Activist
I don't know why legal immigration even exists anymore when I can just put on some bronzer, get on a dingy boat, and just show up at the beaches of Sicily with the Koran in my hand.
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John Hughes
American Director
Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie!
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Joe Russo
American Director
I think there's a lot of people in their dingy boats in the middle of the ocean pining for the days of closed-ended narrative.
Quote examples
V. S. Naipaul
Trinidadian Novelist
My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.
Quote examples
John Dyer
Artist
I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats.
Quote examples
Pink
American Musician
I love the shows that are in dingy little dark clubs, smoky, no production whatsoever.
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