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inferior
Second-rate; poor:
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  1. Second-rate; poor:
  2. (Astronomy) Orbiting between Earth and the sun:
  3. Low or lower in quality, value, or estimation:
stunted
Prevented from growing or developing
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  1. Prevented from growing or developing
  2. (Medicine) low height-for-age (for a person).
scrawny
Stunted or straggly:
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  1. Stunted or straggly:
  2. Thin, malnourished and weak.
  3. Stunted or scrubby
bedraggled
Being in a condition of deterioration; dilapidated:
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  1. Being in a condition of deterioration; dilapidated:
  2. Wet, drenched, or messy:
  3. Decaying, decrepit or dilapidated
broken-down
Not properly maintained; neglected
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  1. Not properly maintained; neglected
  2. Sick or worn out, as by old age or disease
  3. No longer in working order
decrepit
Weakened, worn out, impaired, or broken down by old age, illness, or hard use.
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  1. Weakened, worn out, impaired, or broken down by old age, illness, or hard use.
dilapidated
Having fallen into a state of disrepair or deterioration, especially through neglect
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  1. Having fallen into a state of disrepair or deterioration, especially through neglect
  2. Falling to pieces or into disrepair; broken down; shabby and neglected
dingy
Dirty-colored; not bright or clean; grimy
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  1. Dirty-colored; not bright or clean; grimy
  2. Dismal; shabby
  3. Shabby, drab, or squalid.
down-at-heel
Worn out from long use or neglect; dilapidated.
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  1. Worn out from long use or neglect; dilapidated.
  2. (Literally of footwear, hyphenated when used attributively) In poor condition, especially due to having worn heels; worn-out, shabby.
  3. Shabbily dressed because of poverty; seedy.
mangy
Affected with, caused by, or resembling mange.
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  1. Affected with, caused by, or resembling mange.
  2. Shabby or squalid:
  3. Shabby and filthy; sordid; squalid
rundown
In poor physical condition; weak or exhausted.
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  1. In poor physical condition; weak or exhausted.
  2. Dirty and dilapidated:
  3. Unwound and not running:
scruffy
(Chiefly British) Scaly; scabby.
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  1. (Chiefly British) Scaly; scabby.
  2. Untidy in appearance
  3. Shabby, unkempt, or untidy; grubby
seedy
Having tiny bubbles
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  1. Having tiny bubbles
  2. Worn and shabby; unkempt:
  3. Shabby, run-down, etc.
shabby
Showing much wear; ragged; threadbare
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  1. Showing much wear; ragged; threadbare
  2. Dilapidated or deteriorated in condition, especially through neglect; seedy:
  3. Showing signs of wear and tear; threadbare or worn-out:
shoddy
Made of any cheap, inferior material
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  1. Made of any cheap, inferior material
  2. Being of poor quality or construction
  3. Rundown; shabby.
sleazy
Dishonest or corrupt; disreputable:
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  1. Dishonest or corrupt; disreputable:
  2. (Informal) Shoddy, shabby, cheap, vulgar, etc.
  3. Shabby, dirty, and vulgar; tawdry:
tattered
Dressed in tatters or rags; ragged
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  1. Dressed in tatters or rags; ragged
  2. Wearing torn and ragged clothes
  3. Shabby or dilapidated.
tatty
Somewhat worn, shabby, or dilapidated.
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  1. Somewhat worn, shabby, or dilapidated.
  2. (Brit.) Shabby, decrepit, or tawdry
threadbare
Worn down so that the threads show; having the nap or surface fibers worn off
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  1. Worn down so that the threads show; having the nap or surface fibers worn off
  2. (Of a person) wearing clothes of threadbare material
  3. Wearing old, worn clothes; shabby
tacky
Dowdy or shabby, as in dress or appearance
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  1. Dowdy or shabby, as in dress or appearance
  2. Dowdy, shabbily dressed
  3. Lacking style or good taste; tawdry:
ratty
Full of rats
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  1. Full of rats
  2. Of or like a rat
  3. Dilapidated; shabby.
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Sentence Examples

  • These upland forests are of a scrubby character and are called catingas.

  • The plateau, known as the Ogaden plateau, everywhere presents the same monotonous aspect of a boundless steppe clothed with a scanty vegetation of scrubby plants and herbaceous growths.

  • In the canyons of the Edwards Plateau grow the pecan, live oak, sycamore, elm, walnut and cypress; on the hilly dissected borders of the same plateau are cedars, dwarf and scrubby oak, and higher up are occasional patches of stunted oak, called "shinneries."

  • The provinces of Santa Fe, Cordoba and Santiago del Estero are only partially wooded; large areas of plains are intermingled with scrubby forests of algarrobo (Prosopis), quebracho-blanco (Aspido-sperma quebracho), tala (Celtis tala, Sellowiana, acuminata), acacias and other genera.

  • The surface of the plateau is generally open campo and scrubby arboreal growth called caatingas, but the streams are generally bordered with forest, especially in the deeper valleys.

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