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  • 71down-at-heel — (Roget s Thesaurus II) (or down at the heel) adjective Showing signs of wear and tear or neglect: bedraggled, broken down, decaying, decrepit, dilapidated, dingy, faded, mangy, rundown, scrubby, scruffy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, sleazy, tattered,… …

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  • 72tatty — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Showing signs of wear and tear or neglect: bedraggled, broken down, decaying, decrepit, dilapidated, dingy, down at heel, faded, mangy, rundown, scrubby, scruffy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, sleazy, tattered,… …

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  • 73Deterioration — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Deterioration >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 deterioration deterioration debasement Sgm: N 1 wane wane ebb Sgm: N 1 recession recession &c. 287 Sgm: N 1 retrogradation retrogradation &c. 283 …

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  • 74neat — [[t]ni͟ːt[/t]] ♦♦♦ neater, neatest 1) ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n A neat place, thing, or person is tidy and smart, and has everything in the correct place. So they left her in the neat little house, alone with her memories... She undressed and put her …

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  • 75dingy — adjective their secret hiding place was a dingy room in the basement Syn: gloomy, dark, dull, badly/poorly lit, murky, dim, dismal, dreary, drab, somber, grim, cheerless; dirty, grimy, shabby, faded, worn, dowdy, seed …

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  • 76dilapidated — *shabby, dingy, faded, seedy, threadbare Analogous words: damaged, injured, impaired, marred (see INJURE): ruined, wrecked (see RUIN vb) …

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  • 77dingy — *shabby, dilapidated, faded, seedy, threadbare Analogous words: soiled, grimed, sullied, smirched, tarnished (see SOIL): *dull (sense 2): dusky, murky, gloomy (see DARK) Contrasted words: *bright, luminous, brilliant: fresh, * …

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  • 78seedy — *shabby, dilapidated, dingy, faded, threadbare Analogous words: drooping, flagging, sagging, wilting (see DROOP): sickly, *unwholesome, morbid: worn (see HAGGARD) …

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  • 79threadbare — 1 *shabby, dilapidated, dingy, faded, seedy Analogous words: damaged, injured, impaired (see INJURE): worn (see HAGGARD) 2 shopworn, *trite, hackneyed, stereotyped Analogous words: antiquated, obsolete, archaic (see OLD): exhausted, depleted,… …

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  • 80lackluster — adj 1. tasteless, bland, insipid, jejune, flat, dull, vapid, Sl. nothing, Sl. blah; uneventful, humdrum, monotonous, ordinary, run of the mill, commonplace, prosaic, matter of fact; tedious, tiresome, boring, boresome, wearisome, uninteresting,… …

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