down-at-heel
Example Sentences
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When moving to Downing Street, Thatcher described the Cabinet Ante Room as looking like “a down-at-heel Pall Mall club, with heavy and worn leather furniture.”
From Seattle Times • Apr. 28, 2021
A different problem: How many casinos or race tracks don’t feel either trashy rich or down-at-heel tacky?
From Washington Post • Oct. 5, 2018
There were old and young men, sullen men and contented boys, strangely dilapidated and shabby in their patched uniforms and down-at-heel boots.
From The Guardian • Aug. 24, 2018
A trail of leads soon takes him driving back across the border to Mexico to sleazy resorts, mountaintop villages and down-at-heel hotels in search of the truth over Zinn’s demise.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2018
"And if it comes to that. what must you people think of a down-at-heel Yankee who descends on you and cadges for a job after he's been told there's no work here for him?"
From Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story by Terhune, Albert Payson