tatty
Example Sentences
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Perhaps irony, like water for the swimming pool, is a resource that dries up seasonally in these parts, leaving only a dust bowl of surly resentment and some tatty deckchairs behind.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2023
If, as he spends the book insisting, all he and Meghan ever wanted was domestic simplicity — tatty sofas, Ikea lamps — then why, upon leaving the family, did they buy a $15 million house?
From Washington Post • Jan. 13, 2023
"Noone can stop them," mused Fane on Gran Canaria island where colourful, abandoned migrant boats contain tatty shoes, sardine tins, plastic bottles and a life vest.
From Reuters • Aug. 11, 2022
"The children have absolutely nothing or very few things - a tatty party pack of cards and a really scruffy little teddy - but they were lovely and they just got on with it."
From BBC • Jul. 16, 2022
Lupin smiled vaguely and placed his tatty old briefcase on the teacher’s desk.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
