Dinginess

His nether garments were of a blueish gray—violent in its colours once, but sobered now by age and dinginess—and were so stretched and strained in a tough conflict between his braces and his straps, that they appeared every moment in danger of flying asunder at the knees.

He was a pitiful image of shabby gentility and the dinginess of “reduced circumstances.”

The streets were thunderous; a vast energy heaved under the universal coating of dinginess.

The cramped dinginess of such important stations as Grantham and Peterborough has to be experienced to be believed.