Definition of "dingy" []

• Darkened with smoke and grime; dirty or discolored. (adjective)
• Shabby, drab, or squalid. (adjective)
• Slang Crazy; insane. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The poor live in dingy cubes of space stacked on top of each other like ice cube trays, twelve stories high even in the slums."
• "One of my policies is to avoid motels where you need to communicate with the clerk through a slot in dingy bulletproof glass."
• "For decades a foreign proletariat toiling in dingy factories from Vladivostok to Karl-Marx-Stadt helped bankroll Pyongyang's transformation into a proud monument to ethnic self-reliance, so that someday a Bruce Cumings could boast that it is anything but the ugly Communist capital one might expect."