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disrepair
[ dis-ri-pair ]
disrepair
/ ˌdɪsrɪˈpɛə /
noun
- the condition of being worn out or in poor working order; a condition requiring repairs
Word History and Origins
Origin of disrepair1
Example Sentences
Structural racism led to numerous other obstacles like poverty and overcrowding, and the area became notorious for danger and disrepair.
You inherit your grandfather’s farm, which has fallen into disrepair.
About half of the more than 1,800 buildings and structures in the area, some of which date back a thousand years and are part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, have been in disrepair for years.
His cofounder, Joe Lonsdale, who grew up in Fremont and attended Stanford, penned a Wall Street Journal editorial explaining his 2020 move to Austin saying that California had “fallen into disrepair” due to “bad policies.”
Landlords were fined under nuisance ordinances for letting their buildings fall into disrepair, for harboring drug users and gang activity, and for leasing apartments to people with criminal records.
Years of looting for treasure and building materials, left Kayakoy in a sad state of disrepair.
As the Cold War died down and nuclear destruction never came to fruition, the underground complex slowly slipped into disrepair.
In much of the DRC, roads are in a woeful state of disrepair, and in Goma, the conditions are especially dire.
However, Don ends up ceding the LA office to Ted, leaving his marriage in a desperate state of disrepair.
With few Yankees left to vilify, Venezuela continues its slow motion spin into disrepair.
These huts had been built by sealing gangs many years ago and were in a sad state of disrepair.
The prebendal houses fell into disrepair, and in some cases a plot had been assigned, but no house had been built.
And yet the permanent way of almost every railway is falling into bad disrepair, the roads are shocking.
Sorters seize upon it and separate it and classify it according to kind and state of disrepair.
Unhappily the church was allowed, during the later part of the eighteenth century, to fall into a terrible state of disrepair.
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