| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| ADJECTIVE: | Slang. Showing signs of wear and tear or neglect: bedraggled, broken-down, decaying, decrepit, dilapidated, dingy, down-at-heel, faded, mangy, rundown, scrubby, scruffy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, sleazy, tattered, tatty, threadbare. Informal : tacky2. Idioms: all the worse for wear, gone to pot (or seed) , past cure (or hope) . See BETTER.
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