Synonyms

grimy grungy grubby raunchy begrimed

Examples

"a miner's begrimed face" "dingy linen" "grimy hands" "grubby little fingers" "a grungy kitchen"

Used in print

Somehow Dr._Charles_Leale was forced through the mob and squeezed_out into the dingy corridor .

Related terms

dirty

Synonyms

muddied muddy dirty

Examples

"dirty" is often used in combination "a dirty (or dingy) white" "the muddied gray of the sea" "muddy colors" "dirty-green walls" "dirty-blonde hair"

Related terms

impure

Synonyms

dreary dismal sorry gloomy drear drab

Examples

"drove through dingy streets" "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens "drab old buildings" "a dreary mining town" "gloomy tenements" "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams

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cheerless