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decrepit
adjective as in deteriorated, debilitated, especially as a result of age
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Residents are paying the price in higher liability payouts and embarrassingly decrepit streets, sidewalks and other public works.
Pozzo and Lucky return in Act II in a more decrepit state.
That should motivate progress on long-standing needs such as closing the dangerously decrepit Men’s Central Jail and diverting qualified inmates to rehabilitation facilities; addressing problems in the child welfare system; and providing adequate substance abuse and mental health treatment.
“City and county employees are still hard at work in their office spaces but they’re tired, old, sometimes decrepit and oftentimes no longer up to code in terms of earthquake” safety requirements.
The Trump campaign fired back at those comments on Monday on Fox News, saying “the only thing deteriorating is Nancy Pelosi, who is a decrepit washed up corrupt politician who America can no longer stand ... she should go back to the City of San Francisco, which she has totally destroyed, and never return.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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