tatterdemalion

Example Sentences

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Off it flaps on tatterdemalion wings to wreak much CG-enabled property damage on downtown Philadelphia, where the picture is set.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 16, 2023

Arriving two weeks before the release of “Bones and All,” Luca Guadagnino’s tatterdemalion drifter romance, the director’s “Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams” surveys a more refined coupling, not of people, but of pumps.

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2022

They perched on fence posts, on the roofs of vans, in tatterdemalion back yards.

From Washington Post • Apr. 3, 2018

Doubt and failure gnaw at him; he's a tatterdemalion schemer who knows, however potent his magic, that he's trafficking in forces that dwarf him.

From Time Magazine Archive

Meanwhile the little tatterdemalion had scuffled along to Trevlyn Farm—a very moderately-sized house with a rustic porch covered with jessamine, and a large garden, more useful than ornamental, intervening between it and the high-road.

From Trevlyn Hold by Wood, Mrs. Henry