In a dingy manner; so as to give a dingy appearance.

Forcibly, as one that dings a thing down; downright.

adverb. In a dingy manner.

adverb. In a dingy manner.

adverb. in a dingy manner

"By the 1960s, using the New York subway meant navigating what a John Lindsay-era task force called "the most squalid public environment of the United States: dank, dingily lit, fetid, raucous with screeching clatter, one of the world's meanest transit facilities.""