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Dinginess

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din·gy 1  (dnj)
adj. din·gi·er, din·gi·est
1. Darkened with smoke and grime; dirty or discolored.
2. Shabby, drab, or squalid.
[Possibly from Middle English dinge, dung, variant of dung; see dung.]
dingi·ly adv.
dingi·ness n.
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Noun1.dinginess - discoloration due to dirtiness
dinge
dirtiness, uncleanness - the state of being unsanitary
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He hunted about the streets that led out of the Westminster Bridge Road, but their dinginess was distasteful to him; and at last he found one in Kennington which had a quiet and old-world air.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
His work was hung up in any out-of-the-way corner of the gallery that could be found; it had been bought under protest; it was admitted by sufferance; its freshness and brightness damaged it terribly by contrast with the dirtiness and the dinginess of its elderly predecessors; and its only points selected for praise were those in which it most nearly resembled the peculiar mannerism of some Old Master, not those in which it resembled the characteristics of the old mistress--Nature.
A Rogue's Life by Collins, Wilkie View in context
But his choice was to sit in rags and dinginess on a bench in a park.
The Four Million by Henry, O. View in context
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