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Adjective(1) (2) showing signs of wear and tear(3) tastelessly showy

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(1) The action takes place in a tatty , family-run city hotel managed by Helena (Mercedes Moru00e1n) who is currently seething at the news that her ex-husband has just fathered twins by his new wife.(2) It needs to look at infrastructure and the streets of tatty old ex-boarding houses.(3) A third guy, who copped a hefty fine and a community-based order on a burglary charge, wandered in wearing an old pair of trackie daks (with a hole in one knee) and a tatty old jumper.(4) The tents which are dotted about, range from top mountaineering quality to tatty improvised structures made of bamboo and straw.(5) A tatty , threadbare curtain rises to the accompaniment of a circus drum-roll.(6) Even James, the valet, looked tired and somewhat tatty in a threadbare jacket and fraying neckscarf.(7) There are, I concede, more deserving causes than u2018hack forced to eat sub-standard food in tatty restaurant at someone else's expenseu2019.(8) He looked dishevelled in old, crumpled clothes, his hair matted and his lips cracking, his tatty shirt a poor defence against the biting cold.(9) Phased cuts in educational expenditure as part of Structural Adjustment Programmes left buildings in a tatty , dangerous and unsanitary condition.(10) To this day I'd rather walk around in a tatty shirt than break out the needle and thread to fix it myself.(11) In front is a tatty metal-roofed house on stilts with walls of thin, holey plywood daubed in graffiti.(12) Bookshop rummaging this afternoon, ended up with the exchange of $4.50 for a dog-eared tatty copy of Motel Chronicles & Hawk Moon by Sam Shepard.(13) The condition of the interior would best be described as tatty .(14) The furniture is tatty and the books looked about as appetising as goods in a car boot sale.(15) These are the scruffy, barefoot, rag-tag, tatty little street urchins of the night that come out of their hiding spots once downtown Rangoon is deserted.(16) A man, wearing tatty clothes and an eye patch over his left eye, held out a grimy hand.
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Adjective
1. shabby
2. moth-eaten
3. ratty


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