tatty
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
As soon as Williams ascends to a new height of fame, it begins to look tatty.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2024
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 • Feb. 12, 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
All the walls were painted the same dull white, and there were only a few tatty posters for decoration.
From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2022
In Rutherford’s time, the Cavendish reveled in its tatty grandeur, the epitome of small science in an institutional setting.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
