The dingily gaudy saloon fronts, like drabs in blowsy finery, struck a too sophisticated, sinister note--which, after all, only sums up completely the change which had taken place.
There is a midland city in the heart of fair, open country, a dirty and wonderful city nesting dingily in the fog of its own smoke.
She drove to a little square too dingily middle class to require a policeman.
The window curtains had long since yielded their fresh color to the sunshine and hung dingily in the gaslight.
The front shop was very small, dingily clean and scornfully unmercantile.
She had saved him from the second-rate, dingy life he had been so dingily ready to accept.
It is like a grotto gaudily but dingily decorated, or a vast circus-tent curtained off in hangings of those colors.
The two upper floors of the building were pierced by dusty blank-staring windows, the top ones dingily curtained.
