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Meanings of tatty in inglés
Synonyms
Examples for "shabby"
Examples for "shabby"
1
The violence has overwhelmed the shabby, low-rise city and destroyed its economy.
2
The top picture shows a shabby town square in rural southern France.
3
This far south-west, the trees are still wearing their shabby summer leaves.
4
Musharraf, Khan argued, had begun yet another shabby chapter in Pakistan's history.
5
Her little feet in the shabby, worn-out shoes scarcely touched the floor.
1
You need to do better than a ratty T-shirt and a ponytail.
2
Save for the ratty beard, he looked more Christian quarterback then eco-saboteur.
3
It was a ratty head of straight black hair, and looked greasy.
4
She bent down to tie the laces of her ratty Converse sneakers.
5
But Joey just sat curled up on the ratty sofa and cried.
1
Teolin sat down wrapped in his moth-eaten bearskin and set to work.
2
Sean stepped up to the window and pulled the moth-eaten curtains back.
3
I picked you up because of your moth-eaten morals, I dare say.
4
Everything I came up with was too moth-eaten for even me to believe.
5
A gold locket, shaped like a hardcover book, hung outside her moth-eaten turtleneck.
Usage of tatty in inglés
1
The tatty shop was just down the road from where we played.
2
There's just something funny and likable about your average, everyday, tatty pigeon.
3
His tatty shoes were falling apart, and he only had shorts on.
4
Gradually the tavern did not seem tatty and rude, but excitingly wicked.
5
But beneath this tatty comfort blanket, there are two starkly naked truths.
6
It had red eyes, exaggerated fang-teeth, and was dressed in tatty black.
7
Then private care may not look luxurious, but tatty and grubby.
8
Lars-Gunnar hesitates as he reaches for the underpants that are a bit tatty.
9
Some of them do look a bit tatty, I'm not going to lie.
10
She found a tatty old robe the color of cheap margarine.
11
Joey's mother wore a tatty floral housedress and her hair hadn't been combed.
12
I think it is only fair to say it looks sadly tatty and dilapidated.
13
Most integrated schools are housed in often tatty, temporary accommodation.
14
Three volumes of botany, two of history and a single tatty book of astronomy.
15
All those low ceilings and tatty carpets and flashy shops.
16
She wore a tatty poke bonnet and a ragged shawl.
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Tatty across language varieties
United Kingdom
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