tatterdemalion
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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
In the main, they were tatterdemalion innocents with long hair, granny glasses, and a sense of bewildered outrage at the war and the nation's political processes.
From Time Magazine Archive
St. Martin looks round, first, deliberately; becomes aware of a tatterdemalion and thirsty-looking soul of a beggar at his chair side, who has managed to get his cup filled somehow, also—by a charitable lacquey.
From Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens by Ruskin, John
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