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
Perhaps irony, like water for the swimming pool, is a resource that dries up seasonally in these parts, leaving only a dust bowl of surly resentment and some tatty deckchairs behind.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 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
We know that actors are not their roles, but it still came as a shock to see Angela Lansbury backstage in bunny slippers and a tatty robe, offering visitors a nice hot cuppa.
From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2022
Lupin smiled vaguely and placed his tatty old briefcase on the teacher’s desk.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
