dingily

dingily

English

Etymology

dingy +‎ -ly

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪndʒɪli/

Adverb

dingily (comparative more dingily, superlative most dingily)

1. In a dingy manner.
   • 1842, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Night Sketches, Beneath an Umbrella” in Twice-Told Tales, Boston: James Munroe & Co., Volume 2, p. 273,

     Yonder dingily white remnant of a huge snowbank,—which will yet cumber the sidewalk till the latter days of March,—over or through that wintry waste must I stride onward.

   • 1871, Walt Whitman, “Bivouac on a Mountain Side” in Leaves of Grass, New York: J.S. Redfield, p. 277,

     Behind, the terraced sides of a mountain, abrupt in places, rising high,

     Broken, with rocks, with clinging cedars, with tall shapes dingily seen;

   • 1938, Lawrence Durrell, The Black Book, New York: Pocket Books, 1962, Book Three, pp. 169-170,

     Gracie died just at the time when I had no emotion whatsoever to spend on her: dingily, surrounded by nurses and heartless starched blouses, in a Bournemouth nursing home.