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down-at-the-heel
adjective as in ragged
Strong matches
adjective as in run down
Strongest matches
adjective as in seedy
adjective as in slovenly
Example Sentences
Indeed, it would be hard to imagine a more uninteresting, bedraggled, down-at-the-heel place than this.
He loathed the shabbiness of it, and the suggestion of germs, decay, down-at-the-heel poverty added to his depression.
We had evidently caught the household stripped of "lugs," and sunk in the down-at-the-heel slovenliness which it called "comfort."
Why do we associate money questions with that which is unhappy, unfortunate, down-at-the-heel, with fear and misery?
He put her into a fashionable school and bade her have nothing more to do with those 'down-at-the-heel Bonnivels.'
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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