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

Some 500 prisoners rounded up in Coblenz were tatterdemalion survivors of 15 or 20 different outfits.

From Time Magazine Archive

She was no longer the red-haired tatterdemalion who had romped over the rocks and quarreled with the boys of the Silent City.

From The Secret of the Storm Country by Hitchcock, Lucius W.