Dingily
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈdɪndʒɪli/ · Part of speech adverb
Quick meaning: Dingily is an adverb meaning In a dingy manner.
Meaning
In a dingy manner.
Example Sentences
Behind, the terraced sides of a mountain, abrupt in places, rising high, Broken, with rocks, with clinging cedars, with tall shapes dingily seen;
Yonder dingily white remnant of a huge snowbank,—which will yet cumber the sidewalk till the latter days of March,—over or through that wintry waste must I stride onward.
Gracie died just at the time when I had no emotion whatsoever to spend on her: dingily, surrounded by nurses and heartless starched blouses, in a Bournemouth nursing home.
Synonyms for dingily
Depending on context, synonyms include grubbily, grungily.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include grungily, grubbily, drably, dinkily, dirtily, tawdrily.
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