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down-at-the-heel

ADJECTIVE

ragged

Synonyms

STRONG

battered broken dilapidated disorganized fragmented frayed frazzled jagged mean notched patched rent rough serrated shredded torn

WEAK

badly dressed badly worn contemptible crude desultory dingy full of holes in holes in rags in tatters irregular moth-eaten poor poorly made rugged scraggy seedy shabby shaggy shoddy tacky tattered tatty threadbare uneven unfinished unkempt unpressed worse for wear

Antonyms

STRONG

complete even fixed nice polite smooth

WEAK

kempt new

ADJECTIVE

run down

Synonyms

STRONGEST

broken-down crumbling decrepit derelict deserted desolate dilapidated dingy neglected ramshackle rickety seedy tacky

WEAK

abandoned beat up below par debilitated dog-eared drained enervated exhausted fatigued forsaken frowzy in a bad way old out of condition peaked ratty tattered tired tumble-down uncared-for under the weather unhealthy untended used-up weak weary worn-out

Antonyms

STRONGEST

nice populated sound stable used

WEAK

OK fresh good healthy

ADJECTIVE

seedy

Synonyms

STRONGEST

crummy decaying decrepit dingy grubby scruffy shabby sleazy squalid tacky

WEAK

ailing beat-up bedraggled dog-eared drooping droopy faded flagging frowzy gone to seed in a bad way mangy messy neglected old overgrown poor poorly ragged ratty sagging sickly slovenly tattered threadbare tired torn unkempt untidy unwell used-up wilted wilting worn

Antonyms

STRONGEST

clean good neat nice respectable

WEAK

luxurious posh

ADJECTIVE

slovenly

Synonyms

WEAK

bedraggled botched careless dingy disheveled disorderly dowdy frowzy frumpy grody grubby grungy heedless icky loose messed-up messy mussy negligent pigpen raunchy seedy slack slapdash sleazy slipshod sloppy tacky topsy-turvy unfastidious unkempt unthorough untidy

Antonyms

WEAK

clean ordered organized

ADJECTIVE

threadbare

Synonyms

STRONGEST

faded ratty scruffy shabby shopworn tacky tattered

WEAK

beat up damaged dilapidated dingy dog-eared frowzy impaired injured old ragged run down seedy timeworn used used-up worn-out worse for wear

Antonyms

WEAK

fresh new unused unworn

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Steppenwolf will also mount productions of Conor McPherson’s play “The Night Alive,” about down-at-the-heel Dubliners, and David Adjmi’s satire “Marie Antoinette.”

From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2014

The trust was no down-at-the-heel affair with a sorry or unsavory history.

From Time Magazine Archive

The other is to play off a well-heeled villain against the down-at-the-heel Columbo.

From Time Magazine Archive

In down-at-the-heel West Cincinnati, the members of the West Cincinnati Presbyterian Church and St. Barnabas' Episcopal Church, faced with similar problems, united in 1945.

From Time Magazine Archive

We had evidently caught the household stripped of "lugs," and sunk in the down-at-the-heel slovenliness which it called "comfort."

From The Deluge by Phillips, David Graham

down-at-the-heel

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