tatty
Example Sentences
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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
If anything, it is aggressively anti-fun, as if fun itself were just a tatty concept for the lumpen masses who crowd the family’s amusement parks.
From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2021
“I dropped out of school to help my mother,” said Khandagale, who wore flip-flops, jeans and a tatty checkered shirt as he worked at a kiln in the small town of Beed in Maharashtra.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 14, 2021
I picked up a tatty National Geographic magazine.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
