Usage examples (31)

• The source of it was plain -- an open door under a vast white signboard dingily lettered
• It is like a grotto gaudily but dingily decorated, or a vast circus-tent curtained off in hangings of those colors.
• But the next instant she heard that dingy voice, that spoke so many languages dingily, assailing her with familiarity:
• Than queening it at balls, she felt more in her element seated in a rather dingily furnished drawing-room, holding poor Agnes