Dingy and Flat

Dingy

Dingy adjective - Not clean.

Flat and dingy are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Flat" instead an adjective "Dingy".

Nearby Words: ding, dinged, dinging

Flat

Flat adjective - Lacking a surface luster or gloss.
Usage example: used a flat paint for the condo's interior walls

Dingy and flat are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Dingy" instead an adjective "Flat".

Nearby Words: flatter, flatly, flatness, flatlet, flatting

Both words in one sentence

  • "Friends" Rent Control The flat is dingy and also quite small: bathroom, living room and twin bedroom.
  • Film / Kumiko The Treasure Hunter Both Takako and Kumiko were extremely lonely women, living by themselves in a dingy flat, stuck as office ladies with a mother who wanted them to come home.
  • Film / Love Actually All those young popsters, come Christmas Day... they'll be stretched out naked with a cute bird balancing on their balls, and I'll be stuck in some dingy flat with me manager, Joe, ugliest man in the world, fucking miserable because our fucking gamble didn't pay off.
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