dinginess

It’s the way the guard talks to you when you visit, and how you’re herded single file through dingy corridors to pay too much for microwave concessions.

He had an aide track the poster down to a dingy bookstore in Hollywood and fly it back to the East Coast courtroom in time for closing arguments.

They are not reddish: they are brown, to which grease and dinginess add not a little.

It is another Arrangement in Black in which critics could then discover but dinginess and dirt.

But this dungeon had ample compensations for its darkness and dinginess.

Despite the dinginess of his costume, Mr. Dootleby was a handsome old man, and he looked very out of place on the Bowery.

There is something cheery in its very dinginess, and something free and elfin in its very insignificance.