tatterdemalion

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Off it flaps on tatterdemalion wings to wreak much CG-enabled property damage on downtown Philadelphia, where the picture is set.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 16, 2023

Arriving two weeks before the release of “Bones and All,” Luca Guadagnino’s tatterdemalion drifter romance, the director’s “Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams” surveys a more refined coupling, not of people, but of pumps.

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2022

They perched on fence posts, on the roofs of vans, in tatterdemalion back yards.

From Washington Post • Apr. 3, 2018

How could an eight-piece orchestra and a tatterdemalion cast compete with the great music dramas of Wagner and the moderns?

From Time Magazine Archive

And the tatterdemalion slowly dropped his wistful hands, sighing dutifully, "Yes, m'm."

From Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road by Bates, Katharine Lee