down-at-heel
Example Sentences
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But - aside from a fleeting night when she ran away to "down-at-heel" Fulham after a family row - Jane and Lynne had little in common.
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2024
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
"Have you fallen in with a mad cast of plucky, down-at-heel characters?"
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 31, 2018
There actually seemed to be a vulgar conspiracy among the down-at-heel rural judges—a conspiracy to boost second-rate stock and to turn a blind eye to the virtues of overpriced transatlantic importations.
From Lad: A Dog by Terhune, Albert Payson