ADJECTIVE
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worn and broken down by hard use
a woebegone old shack
a flea-bitten sofa
a creaky shack
a run-down neighborhood
a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape
How To Use flea-bitten In A Sentence
- Don't be gnawing on one of those mangey, flea-bitten, critters. After you shoot a coyote what do you do with it do you eat it keep the fur or get a full body mount, ive never been coyote hunti
- He dreamed of flea-bitten hotels and ballrooms, but he awoke with the smell of cigars in his nostrils, the scent of organized outrage.
- It will be flea-bitten inn rooms all the way then.
- I began to see films in Paris movie houses, many of them quite literally flea-bitten.
- (I knew you were nothing but a flea-bitten mite-eared, worm-tailed moggy from the first time I saw you.) \par (That's no way to treat one of your ancestors,) Grimalkin squawled in protest. Massage
- A flea-bitten rug dominates the floor (anything flea-bitten always manages to dominate) and the sacking lies folded on her ragged mattress.
- We had in fact been walking in totally the wrong direction to get to our cheap but flea-bitten hotel.
- We spent the next half an hour trying each place up the road until we came to the flea-bitten looking bed & breakfast at the end of the road.
- A flea-bitten dog with an enormous tick in its head greets us.
- We ended up walking the streets with our suitcases and had to spend the night in a flea-bitten youth hostel, with lots of old men and young lads.