I seriously look bad as in tired, torn-up and frumpy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Purses and Poop] Reference

It contained two or three torn-up letters and circulars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hercule Poirot's Casebook]

Possibly because he's as torn-up over Robert as Kitty is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mega Buzz: Fringe's Body Double, NCIS: LA's Mystery and House's Budding Romance] Reference

So what I conclude is you're more torn-up than I figured.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Dog]

The ground was littered with torn-up paper by the truckful.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elvis Latte] Reference

Add the sauce, torn-up mozzarella and slivers of fresh basil.    From Wordnik.com.  [pizza, updated | smitten kitchen] Reference

They rushed upon him, and now the torn-up tiger could not get away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wonders of the Jungle Book One] Reference

I watch them in my messy living room, while wearing torn-up clothes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fall of Rome] Reference

The ballots must not be torn-up or taken out of the polling station.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

Um, remember that gory stuff I wrote about my torn-up postnatal body?.    From Wordnik.com.  [deep tissue message] Reference

So you get these wraithike scraps of torn-up identity, strands of skanda.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost in Translation] Reference

He has actually torn-up the garage trying to escape during the last storm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-01-01] Reference

Billie knew the same trick; it was in that torn-up, trembling voice of hers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dreams From My Father]

Wood chips, torn-up bits of C-notes, actual living butterflies, you name it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Word Of The Day: Vajazzling | Manolith] Reference

Tombstones lying about and sticking up at odd angles all over the torn-up ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bullets & Billets] Reference

Now, let's put the girl with the torn-up skirt back into another beautiful outfit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing] Reference

However she has heard that the main plaza in the town was torn-up and 'rennovated'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tapalpa] Reference

Darryl Slater of the Richmond Times-Dispatch captured an image of the torn-up field.    From Wordnik.com.  [Virginia Tech has third football miniscrimmage] Reference

The next day they spotted a car filled with torn-up Kerry signage; it bore Texas plates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Report For Duty! I Say, On Jan. 20, Kerry Takes Oath] Reference

If they kept their heads, they could work themselves free of the torn-up sheets in a few hours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spirits White As Lightning]

The black spaniel sat in the middle of a few sheets of torn-up newspaper, his tongue hanging out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rubadub Mystery]

Tox., I used to keep long strips of a torn-up sheet for the sole purpose of compressing Domeboro.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gentle Healing for Baby and Child] Reference

At the end of the day, torn-up betting slips lay on the ground near the betting windows at Aqueduct.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Crazy Little Thing Called Luck] Reference

But as for the readers, these stories are as eye-catching as the blushing girl in her torn-up skirt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing] Reference

When he writes about the lack of fingerprints on Vincent Foster's torn-up suicide note, this is innuendo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where There's Smoke, There's Safire] Reference

The torn-up, filthy Red Sox jersey that was dug up from under the New York Yankee Stadium is up for bids.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 24, 2008] Reference

I sat on a bench next to an old woman feeding house sparrows and rock doves with torn-up crusts of bread.    From Wordnik.com.  [Persuader]

He knew to watch for fresh bear signs whenever hiking: unsettled dung, torn-up sod, clawed trunks of trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ice Hunt]

She thought of the master bedroom, with its torn-up carpet, splattered walls, and hastily rearranged furniture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alone]

This time there was a bit more matière — torn-up bits of newspaper dipped in black paint and glued onto canvas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rauschenberg's Epic Vision] Reference

She kept her torn-up emotions out of her voice, hoping to relay the conversation with Schuyler in an unthreatening way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wyoming Territory]

We couldn't escape by using the ladder made of torn-up sheets-not when the twins went hysterical just to be on the roof.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flowers In The Attic]

A photo was the second chance, the lifebelt to the drowning, the temporary reprieve from torn-up tickets and anti-climax.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elvis Latte] Reference

That happened when his torn-up suicide note was belatedly discovered by former White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum and two aides.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cracks In The Wall] Reference

The pens were at the end of a huge funnel made from nets, brushwood, and torn-up trees, reinforced by rows of overlapping shields.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two For The Lions]

From one of the wicker baskets used for the purpose of receiving the torn-up letters and documents, the following papers were extracted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 21, 1841] Reference

Just the lanterns that made anyone on the streets a target, and, south of tannery row, torn-up cobbles and a body lying on the pavement.    From Wordnik.com.  [2005]

Below a mess of torn-up flooring that the men had taken away was a rough passageway that seemed to lead downward, twisting out of sight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Noble House]