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Meanings of moth-eaten in anglès

Showing signs of wear and tear.

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Lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new.

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Examples for "shabby"
Examples for "shabby"
1
The violence has overwhelmed the shabby, low-rise city and destroyed its economy.
Reuters
2
The top picture shows a shabby town square in rural southern France.
The Irish Times
3
This far south-west, the trees are still wearing their shabby summer leaves.
Number9Dream
4
Musharraf, Khan argued, had begun yet another shabby chapter in Pakistan's history.
The duel: pakistan on the flight path of american power
5
Her little feet in the shabby, worn-out shoes scarcely touched the floor.
The Dark House
1
You need to do better than a ratty T-shirt and a ponytail.
True Lies
2
Save for the ratty beard, he looked more Christian quarterback then eco-saboteur.
Bones in Her Pocket
3
It was a ratty head of straight black hair, and looked greasy.
Police!!!
4
She bent down to tie the laces of her ratty Converse sneakers.
Dangerous Women
5
But Joey just sat curled up on the ratty sofa and cried.
Dangerous Women
1
The tatty shop was just down the road from where we played.
The Guardian
2
There's just something funny and likable about your average, everyday, tatty pigeon.
The Guardian
3
His tatty shoes were falling apart, and he only had shorts on.
The Reality Dysfunction
4
Gradually the tavern did not seem tatty and rude, but excitingly wicked.
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
5
But beneath this tatty comfort blanket, there are two starkly naked truths.
The Guardian
1
He threw off his clothes, and got into the mothy blankets beside her.
A Rough Shaking
2
Cock'd hats of mothy mould-crutchesmade of mist!
Leaves of Grass
3
The mask was a mothy old balaclava that Pop rolled up to the nose so his mouth showed.
Batman and Robin Have an Altercation
4
In the mothy gray of TV rooms, we pulled back the drapes, and peered out windows into a yellowed sunlight.
Wastelands
Usage of moth-eaten in anglès
1
Teolin sat down wrapped in his moth-eaten bearskin and set to work.
Oracle's Queen
2
Sean stepped up to the window and pulled the moth-eaten curtains back.
The mighty quinns: liam
3
I picked you up because of your moth-eaten morals, I dare say.
The Silver Horde
4
Everything I came up with was too moth-eaten for even me to believe.
Secret Sanction
5
A gold locket, shaped like a hardcover book, hung outside her moth-eaten turtleneck.
The Fireman
6
The moth-eaten carpets and the scatter of newspapers and mail on the floor.
Leaving Time
7
They could see Bryant's moth-eaten brown trilby bobbing up and down.
Bryant & may on the loose: a peculiar crimes unit mystery
8
The doors hung open on a shadowy darkness that looked dull and moth-eaten.
The talisman
9
Probably all moth-eaten by now, but better than freezin to death.
The Shining
10
That's the old, moth-eaten gag they're sure to try to pull on you.
The Little Warrior
11
I should a-known better'n to trust a man o' his moth-eaten morals, anyhow.
Where the Sun Swings North
12
A foxhound rose from the moth-eaten leopard-skin by the hearth as they came in.
Gone to Earth
13
That is the hotel where you find the moth-eaten towel and the bed-ridden coffee.
Remarks
14
Hanging from one of the hooks was a moth-eaten vicuna smoking jacket of blue.
Quill's Window
15
Their existence would have been mildewed and moth-eaten with misery.
The Mountebank
16
She indicated a small humpbacked trunk covered with moth-eaten horsehair.
Ralestone Luck
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