Thesaurus / down at the heel
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synonyms for down at the heel
- battered
- broken
- dilapidated
- disorganized
- fragmented
- frayed
- frazzled
- jagged
- mean
- notched
- patched
- rent
- rough
- serrated
- shredded
- torn
- badly dressed
- badly worn
- contemptible
- crude
- desultory
- dingy
- down-at-the-heel
- full of holes
- in holes
- in rags
- in tatters
- irregular
- moth-eaten
- poor
- poorly made
- rugged
- scraggy
- seedy
- shabby
- shaggy
- shoddy
- tacky
- tattered
- tatty
- threadbare
- uneven
- unfinished
- unkempt
- unpressed
- worse for wear
- broken-down
- crumbling
- decrepit
- derelict
- deserted
- desolate
- dilapidated
- dingy
- neglected
- ramshackle
- rickety
- seedy
- tacky
- abandoned
- beat up
- below par
- debilitated
- dog-eared
- down-at-the-heel
- drained
- enervated
- exhausted
- fatigued
- forsaken
- frowzy
- in a bad way
- old
- out of condition
- peaked
- ratty
- tattered
- tired
- tumble-down
- uncared-for
- under the weather
- unhealthy
- untended
- used-up
- weak
- weary
- worn-out
- crummy
- decaying
- decrepit
- dingy
- grubby
- scruffy
- shabby
- sleazy
- squalid
- tacky
- ailing
- beat-up
- bedraggled
- dog-eared
- down-at-the-heel
- drooping
- droopy
- faded
- flagging
- frowzy
- gone to seed
- in a bad way
- mangy
- messy
- neglected
- old
- overgrown
- poor
- poorly
- ragged
- ratty
- sagging
- sickly
- slovenly
- tattered
- threadbare
- tired
- torn
- unkempt
- untidy
- unwell
- used-up
- wilted
- wilting
- worn
- bedraggled
- botched
- careless
- dingy
- disheveled
- disorderly
- dowdy
- down-at-the-heel
- frowzy
- frumpy
- grody
- grubby
- grungy
- heedless
- icky
- loose
- messed-up
- messy
- mussy
- negligent
- pigpen
- raunchy
- seedy
- slack
- slapdash
- sleazy
- slipshod
- sloppy
- tacky
- topsy-turvy
- unfastidious
- unkempt
- unthorough
- untidy
- faded
- ratty
- scruffy
- shabby
- shopworn
- tacky
- tattered
- beat up
- damaged
- dilapidated
- dingy
- dog-eared
- down-at-the-heel
- frowzy
- impaired
- injured
- old
- ragged
- run down
- seedy
- timeworn
- used
- used-up
- worn-out
- worse for wear
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START THE QUIZ How to use down at the heel in a sentence
The bride elect rushes up to him, and so they both step down to the foot-lights.
PHYSIOLOGY OF THE OPERAJOHN H. SWABY (AKA "SCRICI")I take the Extream Bells, and set down the six Changes on them thus.
TINTINNALOGIA, OR, THE ART OF RINGINGRICHARD DUCKWORTH AND FABIAN STEDMANHis wife stood smiling and waving, the boys shouting, as he disappeared in the old rockaway down the sandy road.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINSo he bore down on the solemn declaration that she stood face to face with a prison term for perjury.
THE BONDBOYGEORGE W. (GEORGE WASHINGTON) OGDENDo not the widow's tears run down the cheek, and her cry against him that causeth them to fall?
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSThe two women had no intention of bathing; they had just strolled down to the beach for a walk and to be alone and near the water.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINSleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSBut, when the car came thundering down, it was crammed to the step; with a melancholy gesture, the driver declined her signal.
HILDA LESSWAYSARNOLD BENNETTAs Spain, however, has fallen from the high place she once held, her colonial system has also gone down.
TOBACCO; ITS HISTORY, VARIETIES, CULTURE, MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCEE. R. BILLINGS.The volcanic eruptions of the mountains on the west broke down its barriers, and let its waters flow.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 60, NO. 372, OCTOBER 1846VARIOUS