Dingiest

Towels and beach towels were provided, as were basic toiletries in one of the pokiest, dingiest bathrooms I have ever had the misfortune to endure. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Some Thais wondered why foreign film crews shoot films in the dingiest, most crowded parts of Bangkok where elephants jostle for space with three-wheeler Tuk-Tuk taxis and swarms of street vendors. ❋ James Hookway (2011)

The smallest, dingiest Cape Cod was depicted in the flyers she tacked up around town, as “cozy, intimate, and utterly charming.” ❋ Mary Higgins Clark (2011)

Later, cleaned up and rescued, Hannay sees the city differently and draws a lesson from this: What had seemed the day before the dingiest of cities now took on a strange beauty ... ❋ Peter Rozovsky (2010)

In possibly one of the dingiest rooms ever to be visited by such a company, we gathered around one end of a bleak, oversize table and discussed our next moves. ❋ Gordon Brown (2010)

"Somewhere in the darkest, dingiest corner of hell, Andrew Wilson is laughing," Beuke told jurors. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Bright and beautifulTeam summer bedding sunflowers and osteospermums with acid-yellow perennial foliage plants for aguaranteed lift to even the dingiest windowsill. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Whereas I now found Barnard to be a disembodied spirit, or a fiction, and his inn the dingiest collection of shabby buildings ever squeezed together in a rank corner as a club for ❋ Unknown (2007)

Physicians, not in the College of Surgeons, can there possibly be found more remarkable instances of uncomplaining poverty, of cheerful, constant self-denial, of the generous remembrance of the claims of kindred and professional brotherhood, than will certainly be found in the dingiest and dirtiest concert room, in the least lucid theatre — even in the raggedest tent circus that was ever stained by weather. ❋ Unknown (2007)

What had seemed the day before the dingiest of cities now took on a strange beauty, the beauty of unexpected horizons and tongues of grey water winding below cypress-studded shores. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The result of this cult of underground cool is that the dingiest, most unassuming restaurants often have long lines to get in, and the person at the next plastic-topped table is just as likely to be Christina Applegate as a newly arrived immigrant (not to mention a struggling student or actor drawn by the rock-bottom prices). ❋ Unknown (2003)

* If you don't know where the polling place is in your district, just try to remember the ugliest, dingiest, most depressing building in a three-mile radius. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Her aunt always sat in the dining-room through the greater part of the day, and of all rooms the dining-room in Kingsbury Crescent was the dingiest. ❋ Unknown (2004)

My mom Sunny packed the clothes away and stored them in the dingiest corner of the basement. ❋ Coben, Harlan, 1962- (2002)

Margo cursed her bad timing, bad temper, and bad luck and followed the retired time scout into the dingiest corner of what had to be the darkest, most miserable bar in Shangri-la Station. ❋ Asprin, Robert (1995)

Sofia ushered them into the smallest, dingiest, most crowded chamber of the castle. ❋ Anthony, Piers (1992)