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
"Have you fallen in with a mad cast of plucky, down-at-heel characters?"
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 31, 2018
“What do you think they are eating for breakfast? Cantaloupe and cottage cheese?” joked Luis Luna, an organizer from Make the Road, a community group that helps low-income Latinos in Greenwich’s down-at-heel neighbor Bridgeport.
From The Guardian • Mar. 27, 2017
It was the first time that the simple woman had gazed on genius down-at-heel, and faring on the dry crust of unrequited self-respect.
From Heriot's Choice A Tale by Carey, Rosa Nouchette