dilapidation

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Still, how is it that the official residence of Canadian prime ministers was allowed to fall into a state of dilapidation?

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2023

You wouldn’t choose to wear the scent of dilapidation or urban decline or gentrification or environmental racism.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2022

Ms. Snow said that the city was “responsible for the terrible condition” of the building because it had done little to prevent further dilapidation since it acquired the property.

From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2021

Hugo deplored the dilapidation of the structure but stood in awe of the palimpsest.

From Slate • Apr. 16, 2019

More than the dilapidation, it was this connection, this lost memory of the temple’s grander relation, which gave the useless little building its sorry air.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan