tatterdemalion

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tatterdemalion Definition

• (n) a dirty shabbily clothed urchin
• (s) worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing; "a man in a tattered shirt"; "the tattered flag"; "tied up in tattered brown paper"; "a tattered barefoot boy"; "a tatterdemalion prince"
• (s) in deplorable condition; "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack"

tatterdemalion Synonyms

• bedraggled
• broken-down
• dilapidated
• ragamuffin
• ramshackle
• tatterdemalion
• tattered
• tumble-down
• unsound