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

Thus Falstaff describes his tatterdemalion recruits as— "Ten times more dishonourable ragged than an old-faced ancient."

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest