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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
- 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
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How to use down-at-the-heel in a sentence
Indeed, it would be hard to imagine a more uninteresting, bedraggled, down-at-the-heel place than this.
A Woman's Journey through the Philippines | Florence Kimball RusselHe loathed the shabbiness of it, and the suggestion of germs, decay, down-at-the-heel poverty added to his depression.
The Man from the Bitter Roots | Caroline LockhartWe had evidently caught the household stripped of "lugs," and sunk in the down-at-the-heel slovenliness which it called "comfort."
The Deluge | David Graham Phillips
Why do we associate money questions with that which is unhappy, unfortunate, down-at-the-heel, with fear and misery?
Creating Capital | Frederick L. LipmanHe put her into a fashionable school and bade her have nothing more to do with those 'down-at-the-heel Bonnivels.'
Joyce's Investments | Fannie E. Newberry
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