Thesaurus / dog-eared
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There the satinwood bookcase filled with his dog-eared schoolbooks.
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAYOSCAR WILDE
He dug into his pocket, and produced a tattered, dog-eared pamphlet, folded open at one of the early pages.
ROPEHOLWORTHY HALL
From a chest Blackbeard hauled out a dog-eared chart of parchment and unrolled it upon the table.
BLACKBEARD: BUCCANEERRALPH D. PAINE
They made no answer, but when they returned for the empty dishes they left a couple of dog-eared magazines.
MAN OF MANY MINDSE. EVERETT EVANS
At night I'll read the ones that are worn from your hands, the dog-eared ones full of pencil marks.
SACRIFICESTEPHEN FRENCH WHITMAN
But Geordie seemed convinced that through this dog-eared volume lay the only royal road to learning.
GEORDIE'S TRYSTMRS. MILNE RAE
Lamb, like Young, the poet, dog-eared his books to such an extent that many of them would hardly close at all.
THE BOOK-HUNTER IN LONDONWILLIAM ROBERTS
Your pasteboard photograph so soon grows yellowed, dog-eared and stale!
WHEN LIFE WAS YOUNGC. A. STEPHENS
Next he withdrew the book of verses and after that the country-store note-book with its dog-eared and age-yellowed pages.
DESTINYCHARLES NEVILLE BUCK
The chemist thumbed a dog-eared volume, read an entry carefully, and retired to a dispensing counter in the rear of the shop.
THE POSTMASTER'S DAUGHTERLOUIS TRACY
WORDS RELATED TO DOG-EARED
- bare
- bedraggled
- crummy
- decayed
- decaying
- decrepit
- desolate
- deteriorated
- deteriorating
- dilapidated
- dingy
- disfigured
- disreputable
- dog-eared
- faded
- frayed
- gone to seed
- mangy
- meager
- mean
- miserable
- moth-eaten
- neglected
- pitiful
- poor
- poverty-stricken
- ragged
- ramshackle
- ratty
- rickety
- ruined
- ruinous
- run-down
- scrubby
- scruffy
- seedy
- shoddy
- sleazy
- slipshod
- squalid
- tacky
- tattered
- threadbare
- tired
- worn
- worn-out
- worse for wear
- wretched
- all the worse for wear
- bare
- bedraggled
- broken-down
- crummy
- cure
- decayed
- decaying
- decrepit
- desolate
- deteriorated
- deteriorating
- dilapidated
- dingy
- disfigured
- disreputable
- dog-eared
- 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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