dingily
advUK /ˈdɪndʒɪli/
Etymology From dingy + -ly.
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In a dingy manner.
- 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.1842, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Night Sketches, Beneath an Umbrella”, in Twice-Told Tales, volume 2, Boston: James Munroe & Co., page 273:
- Behind, the terraced sides of a mountain, abrupt in places, rising high, Broken, with rocks, with clinging cedars, with tall shapes dingily seen;1871, Walt Whitman, “Bivouac on a Mountain Side”, in Leaves of Grass, New York: J.S. Redfield, page 277:
1 more example
- 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.1938, Lawrence Durrell, The Black Book, New York: Pocket Books, published 1962, Book Three, pp. 169-170: