Example Sentences

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The sheer tattiness and seediness of postwar Britain is superbly conjured.

From The Guardian • Jun. 7, 2018

Whoever put the video together hadn’t shied away from the tattiness of the capital city of Monrovia, which was featured in all of its dilapidated glory.

From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2017

But for me this wasn't the case – indeed, the very epidermal tattiness of poster peeling away from poster peeling away from poster was its glamour.

From The Guardian • May 24, 2012

In September, the garden has none of the black-earthed promise of the springtime, but for all its pockets of tattiness and pestilence, the fall patch is a place of fulfillment and, aye, of mellow fruitfulness.

From Washington Post

The result was a series of compromises with Utzon's ideas, varying between efficiency and tattiness.

From Time Magazine Archive