darned
adjective
well-darned
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a word derived from
darned.
Example Sentences
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He was a tall and very thin man, meanly dressed in a short scanty jacket and well-darned hose.
From Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Stanley J. Weyman
In it were a pair of well-darned kid gloves and two tiny paper packages.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 by Various
Bertie looked soberly down at his old, well-darned mittens.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
He was a tall and very thin man, meanly dressed in a short, scanty jacket and well-darned hose.
From Under the Red Robe by Stanley John Weyman
When Lily Pearl raised her plate at the supper table, a new silver dollar glistened on the whiteness of the well-darned cloth, put on in honor of the guest.
From The Tobacco Tiller A Tale of the Kentucky Tobacco Fields by Sarah Bell Hackley
