torn to pieces

ADJECTIVE

raggedy

Synonyms

WEAK

badly dressed badly worn battered broken dilapidated frayed frazzled full of holes in rags in shreds in tatters moth-eaten poorly made ragged ripped rugged scraggy seedy shabby shaggy shoddy tatterdemalion threadbare torn unkempt

ADJECTIVE

tatterdemalion

Synonyms

STRONG

shoddy

WEAK

badly dressed badly worn battered broken dilapidated frayed frazzled full of holes in rags in shreds in tatters moth-eaten poorly made ragged raggedy ripped rugged scraggy seedy shabby shaggy threadbare torn unkempt

ADJECTIVE

tattered

Synonyms

STRONGEST

battered dilapidated frayed ripped shabby threadbare torn

WEAK

badly dressed badly worn broken frazzled full of holes in rags in shreds in tatters moth-eaten poorly made rugged scraggy seedy shaggy shoddy unkempt

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torn to pieces

All my unopened Pop! bobbleheads have been discovered by my kids, their packaging torn to pieces and heads ripped off.

From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2024

Real dinosaur fossils look less like that T. rex skeleton in Disneyland’s Big Thunder Mountain and more like a dinosaur skeleton building set a child has torn to pieces and scattered.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2022

“Parents’ Morning Epiphany” reads like a creative-writing exercise torn to pieces.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2019

Celtic eased back to the top of the Premiership in style as Motherwell were torn to pieces at Parkhead.

From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2015

Magdalys felt like her heart was being torn to pieces each time the moan sounded.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older

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