dingily

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1. In a dingy manner.

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

   1871, Walt Whitman, “Bivouac on a Mountain Side”, in Leaves of Grass, New York: J.S. Redfield, page 277

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   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.

   1842, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Night Sketches, Beneath an Umbrella”, in Twice-Told Tales, volume 2, Boston: James Munroe & Co., page 273

   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.

   1938, Lawrence Durrell, The Black Book, New York: Pocket Books, published 1962, Book Three, pp. 169-170