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adjective
- (Informal)
Showing signs of wear and tear or neglect:
bedraggled, broken-down, decaying, decrepit, dilapidated, dingy, down-at-heel, faded, mangy, rundown, scrubby, scruffy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, sleazy, tattered, tatty, threadbare. (Slang) ratty. Idioms: all the worse for wear, gone to pot (or seed), past cure (or hope). See better - (Informal)
Lacking style and good taste:
inelegant, tasteless, unbecoming. See style - (Informal)
Quite outmoded or unfashionable:
dowdy, frumpish. See new - (Informal)
Tastelessly showy:
brummagem, chintzy, flashy, garish, gaudy, glaring, loud, meretricious, tawdry, tinsel. See style
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