ADJECTIVE
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in deplorable condition
a street of bedraggled tenements
a ramshackle old pier
a broken-down fence
a tumble-down shack -
worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing
the tattered flag
tied up in tattered brown paper
a tattered barefoot boy
a tatterdemalion prince
a man in a tattered shirt
NOUN
- a dirty shabbily clothed urchin
How To Use tatterdemalion In A Sentence
- Al's tatterdemalion figure was washed out in a psychedelic rainbow as Sam Beckett leaped again.
- It was a pair of worn-out tatterdemalions that Captain Jones of the Mounted Police welcomed and fed, and he afterward averred that they possessed two of the most tremendous appetites he had ever observed. Trust
- The Web sites supporting ‘The Living Wage Movement’ have a tatterdemalion, homemade feel to them.
- And a circus happens where and whenever some tatterdemalion body discards itself in leaps and somersaults.
- In the haphazard tatterdemalion surroundings of sheds and abandoned industrial buildings, the new centre stands out as an organized oasis.
- They began with a tatterdemalion parade of musicians and baton twirlers down the aisle and onto the stage.
- a tatterdemalion prince