tatty
Example Sentences
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As soon as Williams ascends to a new height of fame, it begins to look tatty.
From Los Angeles Times
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
Look closely, and the beggar’s left hand has disappeared, tucked inside the placket of his tatty jacket.
From Los Angeles Times
The gloomy, dark room had bare belongings: a rope and wood cot, a steel vessel to store grains, a clay stove sunk in the ground and a tatty clothes line.
From BBC
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
