dingier वाक्य

Let's face it, the air quality in L . A . hasn't improved that much during the past two years that our fair city can absorb all the pollution that Shaquille O'Neal and Phil Jackson have been emitting without coming off looking a little dingier to NBA outsiders.
To be precise, John Becker is a twice-divorced general practitioner with a lower-and lower-middle-class Bronx practice, and _ astounding for a sitcom character _ a car and an apartment considerably junkier and dingier, respectively, then the ones he would probably own and inhabit in real life.