down-at-heel
Example Sentences
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When moving to Downing Street, Thatcher described the Cabinet Ante Room as looking like “a down-at-heel Pall Mall club, with heavy and worn leather furniture.”
From Seattle Times • Apr. 28, 2021
A different problem: How many casinos or race tracks don’t feel either trashy rich or down-at-heel tacky?
From Washington Post • Oct. 5, 2018
A trail of leads soon takes him driving back across the border to Mexico to sleazy resorts, mountaintop villages and down-at-heel hotels in search of the truth over Zinn’s demise.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2018
The 60-year-old grandmother, who like many Indonesians goes by only one name, lives in the down-at-heel waterfront neighbourhood of Maura Baru.
From The Guardian • Nov. 22, 2016
He was a queer shoot, again, in his unkempt longish hair and slovenly clothes, a sort of very vulgar down-at-heel American in appearance.
From Twilight in Italy by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)