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dingily

/din-jee/US // ˈdɪn dʒi //UK // (ˈdɪndʒɪ) //

叮叮当当地,叮叮当当,鼎力,叮叮当当的

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    din·gi·er, din·gi·est.

    • : of a dark, dull, or dirty color or aspect; lacking brightness or freshness.
    • : shabby; dismal.

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Examples

  • Otherwise, he’s five-foot-seven, he walks around carrying a New Yorker tote, and his favorite jacket is a dingy yellow puffy he found in a box of free stuff.

  • I walked past an elevator with a hand-drawn picture of three stick figures to show people it led to Ross, and a sign written in marker directing me to the dingy stairs.

  • We spoke to some self-professed karaoke lovers about why they feel so passionately about these dingy bars, and what not singing together for over a year has meant for them.

  • You need a whitening kit, I tell my teeth, which look dingy when I smile at a colleague’s joke.

  • However, thousands of others, mostly impoverished women and children, trudge to dingy, crowded factories in cities such as New York and Los Angeles — and wherever there is concentrated cheap immigrant labor.

  • He has a majestic view of the dingy back entrance of a Hilton hotel.

  • On a cold, foggy night On Feb 26, 1998 I walked out a dingy hotel in handcuffs.

  • Then I turned to the right and stopped before a dingy shop which bore the sign: HAWBERK, ARMOURER.

  • That night, I dreamed of a square, three-story, concrete building that was dark and dingy with filth, dust, and cobwebs.

  • When she came to power in 1978, Britain was a dreary, dreary place: dingy, funereal, abashed, scruffy, feckless.

  • They were for the most part dingy, but as they were nearly always open it did not make so much difference.

  • It was there also that she ate, keeping her belongings in a rare old buffet, dingy and battered from a hundred years of use.

  • It is up a lot of very dingy back-staircases and down a lot of very dingy passages.

  • He wore moccasins and buckskin leggings, and a dingy-blue flannel shirt, open at the throat.

  • Those two spots 92 of colour against the dingy wood panels dressed up the desolation wonderfully.