Lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality.
Worn and broken down by hard use.
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Examples for "derelict "
Examples for "derelict "
1 Turning back, Rardove sailed a brief look over the young, derelict soldiers.
2 The building seemed even more derelict than it had twenty minutes ago.
3 Property porn was a great escape: derelict castles, run-down farms, lighthouse conversions.
4 Some promoters didn't share our concern, and staged events in derelict warehouses.
5 The city, the island, now carried the haunted feel of a derelict .
1 You have to add creaky voice and it means something totally different.
2 Analogous measures can be taken to keep creaky old operating systems working.
3 These creaky old tools could adapt better to how we work today.
4 Mr Verloc heard the creaky plank in the floor, and was content.
5 Then I heard the scraping of a creaky portal on the floor.
1 Nodding without really understanding, Luke indicated the run-down though obviously popular cantina.
2 It is far from the stereotypical image of a run-down city suburb.
3 Although the house was run-down , the land itself was a gold mine.
4 He gave a run-down on the relatively new science of marine bio-acoustics.
5 But truly, Marianne, this place was almost as run-down as Woods House.
1 At once his countenance fell; he turned upon me a woebegone eye.
2 Withhold not Thy countenance from the tears and beseechings of the woebegone .
3 The boys groaned in unison at this, and even Betty looked woebegone .
4 The Wobegon Boy in question, John Tollefson, should be anything but woebegone .
5 She looked very pale and woebegone when she came down to breakfast.
1 The last thing Lucius needed was a flea - bitten monster disrupting his household.
2 You flea - bitten harpy, have not you had enough of me today?
3 You are worse than a dog, you old flinty-faced, flea-bitten scrub.
4 He was a mouse-coloured, slate-coloured, flea-bitten roan- dun, if you can conceive it.
5 Gertie was skinny and flea - bitten , but she started licking my face.
(Of a person) Very weakened or worn-down by age.
1 Tens of thousands of children enter Russia's decrepit orphanage system every year.
2 The decrepit regime Syria's president heads is getting really good at repression.
3 The second house was a converted detached garage in back, equally decrepit .
4 Its location in the middle of Dublin 4 belied its decrepit state.
5 Family after family arrives, each claiming a decrepit ancestor amid high-decibel greetings.
6 All that was back in the decrepit and languid and hopesick nineties.
7 Gretchen leads Donnie up to the front porch of the decrepit house.
8 In short, the Roman and Grecian races had become impotent and decrepit .
9 It seemed to be in the same decrepit condition as Preston's house.
10 Despite its decrepit appearance, it was the back gate to Saint-Germain's house.
11 The horse was a decrepit animal and did not go very fast.
12 Old Mayer was as decrepit as any old statue in a museum.
13 The place is so decrepit and poorly maintained the locals are rabid.
14 The interior was just as decrepit as the rest of the building.
15 The Politburo of the late 1970s was a corrupt and decrepit gerontocracy.
16 It was dusty, decrepit , and smelled faintly of sawdust and machine oil.
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