tatty
Example Sentences
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She said the 100-page book "is like a faded souvenir, tatty but treasurable for its associations with the fabulous imaginary world that Márquez conjured up in his prime".
From BBC • Mar. 6, 2024
Look closely, and the beggar’s left hand has disappeared, tucked inside the placket of his tatty jacket.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2023
If, as he spends the book insisting, all he and Meghan ever wanted was domestic simplicity — tatty sofas, Ikea lamps — then why, upon leaving the family, did they buy a $15 million house?
From Washington Post • Jan. 13, 2023
"Noone can stop them," mused Fane on Gran Canaria island where colourful, abandoned migrant boats contain tatty shoes, sardine tins, plastic bottles and a life vest.
From Reuters • Aug. 11, 2022
She sagged onto the sofa and tucked her legs up under her tatty pink bathrobe.
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
