dingily

adv
/ˈdɪndʒɪli/UK

Etymology

From dingy + -ly.

  1. inherited from *dyncgiġ
  2. suffixed as dingily — “dingy + ly

Definitions

  1. 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.
    • Behind, the terraced sides of a mountain, abrupt in places, rising high, Broken, with rocks, with clinging cedars, with tall shapes dingily seen;
    • 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA