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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

Example Sentences

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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

Wynne High School was badly damaged, with some buildings torn to pieces.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2023

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

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

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older