dingy

adjective3

1. •
   Dark, dull.

   • The station has been refurbished both at ground level and below ground, where the wide, fluorescently lit platforms are an almost unrecognisable metamorphosis of the dingy, reeking Low Level of old. — 1960
2. •
   Shabby, squalid, uncared-for.
3. •
   (informal, rare) Resembling or characteristic of a ding (the sound).

   • They was a button on that thar computer what said ‘Enter’. I pushed it ’cause I figgered it must be a doorbell. It didn’t make no dingy sound though. — 2012