The word 'dingy' is correct and usable in written English.
It is an adjective used to describe a place or thing as being dark, dirty, or shabby. You can use it when referring to a room, a piece of clothing, or an atmosphere. Example: The hallway was filled with a dingy and musty smell.
This slight shift in musical direction was the result of a temporary relocation to a "dingy flat" (their words) in Bucharest, where they absorbed the country's literature and became obsessed with poet Veronica Micle, whose tragic life – she ended up killing herself in a monastery after the death of the love of her life – influences new single Last Breath.
His paintings that meditate on this real-life crime focus on poverty and desperation, as a man and woman wonder how they will pay the rent for their dingy room.
It is a story of how a vulnerable teenage girl on holiday in Greece with her mother was trafficked into the sex industry and spent six years as a prostitute – in brothels, on the streets, in dingy hotel rooms – before finally making her escape from a life of relentless physical and sexual abuse.
But behind the net curtains of that lonely single window will lurk a more dingy room.
A non-gambler might imagine the casino to be a dingy, smoke-filled basement where booze is trafficked and the sun never shines.
While the Kmart shop in the same mall is dingy, with narrow aisles cluttered with cardboard boxes and broken clothes racks, the Target store is spacious, brightly lit and clean.
WHEN a revised case for HS2, a proposed high-speed railway, was launched late last year, the press conference took place in a dingy government basement.
It looks unwelcoming, they say, dark and a little dingy.
Unlike older bus services, Megabus routes picked people up from "kerbside" spots rather than dingy stations.
A dingy flight of stairs leads to a crowded basement where graffiti and wiring vein the walls, algorithmic neon shapes wheel and dart to thumping music, and a smoky fug of sweat and marijuana hangs in the air.
IN A dingy, garage-sized dance studio behind the national theatre in Kampala, Uganda's capital, a dance troupe called Tabu-Flo is hard at work.
