Thesaurus / moth-eaten

moth-eaten

How to use moth-eaten in a sentence

I also saw the clerk busy folding up a moth-eaten velvet pall—not a sight for Christmas Day.

A THIN GHOST AND OTHERSM. R. (MONTAGUE RHODES) JAMES

Come one, come all—all you moth-eaten, lousy stiffs from Stiffville.

In impatient haste he tossed out some old novels, caps, a blazer, a roll of moth-eaten bunting.

When we go to see them in the evening we find him wrapped in a moth-eaten gray coat and a cap on his head.

They had hurried on because they were anxious to bring the spoils of the chase to Simla ere the skins grew moth-eaten.

KIMRUDYARD KIPLING

She indicated a small humpbacked trunk covered with moth-eaten horsehair.

It was an old moth-eaten great-coat, heavily trimmed with fur; and in removing it a companion cap of sealskin was disclosed.

It was generally supposed that she was, in the slang of the day, either "moth-eaten," or "cracked."

POPPYCYNTHIA STOCKLEY

Did you boys really think you had scared us with those moth-eaten old robes?

The quills plucked from well-fed living birds have most elasticity, and are least subject to be moth-eaten.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985