tatterdemalion

Example Sentences

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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

Doubt and failure gnaw at him; he's a tatterdemalion schemer who knows, however potent his magic, that he's trafficking in forces that dwarf him.

From Time Magazine Archive

The spirit of this new army was not that burning love of liberty which had animated the armies of the early republic and turned its tatterdemalion legions into paladins.

From The Eagle of the Empire A Story of Waterloo by Brady, Cyrus Townsend