dingily

The Groveler's voice ringing dingily out of some big speakers.

He runs through it into a damp, dirty and dingily lit access corridor.

When Psychiatry had occupied the premises it was just an upper floor, dingily walled and floored.

It was a place rather dingily lighted, the darkest portions having incandescent lights, filled with machines and work benches.

Surely this should be a dingily genteel inn, full of black-stockinged old Trollopian clergymen?

Dumarest had seen them before the other: roundish shapes, dingily white, moving to freeze into invisibility before moving again.

Crow Road is also a dingily respectable thoroughfare in Glasgow, and it is there that Prentice beds his uncle's former lover, his own 'Aunty' Janice.

Working with watery acrylics and large brushes on raw canvases, she paints pale, blurry and dingily colored fantasies having to do with space and time travel and ancient mythology.

The room known as "her" room, a half-bedroom forced into a space created because the staircase didn't continue to the roof, was dingily comfortable, warm at least, and she pawed through some paperbacks on the windowsill.

On a weekday the folk were dingily and curiously hung about with dirty rags of housecloth and scarlet flannel, sacking, curtain serge, and patches of old carpet, and went either bare-footed or on rude wooden sandals.

He stood dingily smiling, and breathing hard at them, with a most curious air; as if, instead of being his proprietor's grubber, he were the triumphant proprietor of the Marshalsea, the Marshal, all the turnkeys, and all the Collegians.

Hayward led them into a large, long room, dingily magnificent, with huge pictures on the walls of nude women: they were vast allegories of the school of Haydon; but smoke, gas, and the London atmosphere had given them a richness which made them look like old masters.