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dog-eared
adjective as in dilapidated
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adjective as in run down
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adjective as in scrubby
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- all the worse for wear
- bare
- bedraggled
- broken-down
- crummy
- cure
- decayed
- decaying
- decrepit
- degenerated
- desolate
- deteriorated
- deteriorating
- dilapidated
- dingy
- disfigured
- disreputable
- down-at-heel
- faded
- frayed
- gone to seed
- mangy
- meager
- mean
- miserable
- moth-eaten
- neglected
- pitiful
- poor
- pot
- poverty-stricken
- ragged
- ramshackle
- ratty
- rickety
- ruined
- ruinous
- run down
- rundown
- scruffy
- seedy
- shoddy
- sleazy
- slipshod
- squalid
- tacky
- tattered
- tatty
- threadbare
- tired
- worn
- worn-out
- worse for wear
- wretched
adjective as in seedy
adjective as in shabby
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adjective as in tatty
Weak matches
- all the worse for wear
- bare
- bedraggled
- broken-down
- crummy
- cure
- decayed
- decaying
- decrepit
- degenerated
- desolate
- deteriorated
- deteriorating
- dilapidated
- dingy
- disfigured
- disreputable
- down-at-heel
- faded
- frayed
- gone to seed
- mangy
- meager
- mean
- miserable
- moth-eaten
- neglected
- pitiful
- poor
- pot
- poverty-stricken
- ragged
- ramshackle
- ratty
- rickety
- ruined
- ruinous
- run down
- rundown
- scrubby
- scruffy
- seedy
- shoddy
- sleazy
- slipshod
- squalid
- tacky
- tattered
- threadbare
- tired
- worn
- worn-out
- worse for wear
- wretched
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Example Sentences
Still, one can easily envision hordes clutching their dog-eared paperbacks of Inferno straining to find the flag.
It is, in short, the same old dog-eared Republican playbook with nary an acknowledgement that Obama just won reelection.
Accusing Washington of failure to work properly is one of the most dog-eared pages in the political playbook.
My father loved poetry and after his death I found several volumes, selectively dog-eared, with key parts underlined.
Then, in Cashmere one day, I met a fellow in a caravan, with a dog-eared book in his pocket.
A full hour after Darby's departure I ventured to open the little dog-eared volume which he had thrown upon my table.
Rising, he went to a shelf of battered, dog-eared books, and taking down an armful proceeded to strew the volumes upon the table.
A turned-down page, it is perhaps a little too dog-eared to be read over again, but we all like to compare notes.
She hurried away to some outlying part of the house, reappearing in a few minutes with a dog-eared bundle of sheets in her hand.
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On this page you'll find 60 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dog-ear, such as: crinkle, pleat, pucker, wrinkle, bend, and cockle.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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