Definition of "dingily" [din•gi•ly]

• In a dingy manner. (adverb)

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• "By the 1960s, using the New York subway meant navigating what a John Lindsay-era task force called "the most squalid public environment of the United States: dank, dingily lit, fetid, raucous with screeching clatter, one of the world's meanest transit facilities.""
• "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."
• "It is like a grotto gaudily but dingily decorated, or a vast circus-tent curtained off in hangings of those colors."