dingy
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They could end up nursing a grudge that they paid $200 a night for a space that resembles a dingy roadside motel rather than a boutique experience.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026
As dispassionate buyers who paid cash and didn’t quibble over ugly paint or dingy carpet, they beat out regular buyers without having to outbid them.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 10, 2026
I was standing in the emergency department at 11 p.m. under dingy hospital fluorescent lighting.
From Slate • Aug. 1, 2025
For every set, though, walls were never moved for the camera’s sake, “so you’re true to the claustrophobia,” says Gropman, and in the case of the dingy New York SRO, “the meanness of that space.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2024
She could tell that it was very dingy and the windows were badly in need of washing.
From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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