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in holes

ADJECTIVE

ragged

Synonyms

STRONG

battered broken dilapidated disorganized fragmented frayed frazzled jagged mean notched patched rent rough serrated shredded torn

WEAK

badly dressed badly worn contemptible crude desultory dingy down-at-the-heel full of 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

Antonyms

STRONG

complete even fixed nice polite smooth

WEAK

kempt new

Example Sentences

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“We have to stop putting ourselves in holes and then trying to figure our way out. It’s got to get cleaned up. It’s got to get fixed.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2025

Jenny Paterson spent three-and-a-half hours using a rake, spade and bucket to fill in holes on a rutted section of Bridge Street in Halkirk, Caithness.

From BBC • Aug. 21, 2024

They are especially interested in holes that persist through many different scales.

From Scientific American • Sep. 26, 2022

To breathe, seals pop up in holes in the frozen seawater, and there the bears ambush and eat them.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 15, 2022

News clip after news clip fills in holes and at the same time creates new ones.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

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