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tumble-down
adjective as in decrepit
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adjective as in dilapidated
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adjective as in ramshackle
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adjective as in rickety
adjective as in run down
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Example Sentences
The actual Los Angeles was a fly-ridden settlement of tumble-down adobes, packs of feral dogs and one of the nation’s highest murder rates.
Some peddled their pills near tumble-down storefronts and on blighted street corners in addiction-plagued parts of Allegheny County, where deaths by drug overdose reached record levels last year.
Off a dirt road, in a small village north of Tirana, there's a half-built, tumble-down, brick house.
The city's High Street was a dirt road then, with tumble-down thatched cottages on one side and hoardings on the other.
Their father “was very drunk. He could hardly walk up the rickety steps of the old tumble-down house, and his thirteen-year-old son had to help him.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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