Adjective, : a tatty production of a Shakespearean play. ,an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains. From Dictionary.com.
Strictly Come Dancing: Viewers outraged by tiny and 'tatty' dresses that are cheapening the show. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
Of course - everybody knows it, but in these days of 'tatty' talent shows, he rarely gets a mention. From Wordnik.com. [Expecting Rain] Reference
I looked at a tatty apartment complex I was passing. From Wordnik.com. [Steven Denlinger: Bartering My Future] Reference
He waved a vague hand around the tatty surroundings. From Wordnik.com. [Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency]
It seemed somehow ragged to me, disreputable, tatty. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
He really took an age and more To pack his tatty kleid. From Wordnik.com. [A Spaniard In The Works]
Then down the gray streets fluttered a tatty old poster. From Wordnik.com. [It's Easy to Appreciate 'Mr. Pusskins'] Reference
Nothing special, save a tatty copy of Martin Chuzzlewit. From Wordnik.com. [The Great California Game]
With a mess of tatty trinkets and a pile of plastic beads. From Wordnik.com. [Idlers and Skivers (Knocking at the Door)] Reference
"Has it occurred to you that this planetoid is a bit tatty?". From Wordnik.com. [The Grand Wheel]
She was wearing a fuzzy pink bathrobe, rather tatty the lapels. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter]
And so tatty compared to the glowing perfect finish of the room. From Wordnik.com. [Homebody]
He fetched his increasingly tatty copy of the Castlemere Courier. From Wordnik.com. [A Taste for Burning]
The storefronts in my neighborhood at that time were tatty, tired. From Wordnik.com. [Turbulence Ahead] Reference
The shirt's probably a bit tatty after travelling round the world. From Wordnik.com. [The Breaking Wave]
The result is tatty-looking plants and small, well smallish, potatoes. From Wordnik.com. [Groundwork: Spud time] Reference
The gallbladder collects bile, a liquid that helps digest tatty foods. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 33] Reference
I pulled a tatty supermarket carrier bag from my pocket and dropped it in. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
Fleet Street -- a tatty con-fraternity of some of the best world-flinched. From Wordnik.com. [Taking The Tabs To Task] Reference
Lupin smiled vaguely and placed his tatty old briefcase on the teacher's desk. From Wordnik.com. [Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]
Like Dumas, Sabatini also loves costumes, even -- especially -- if they're tatty. From Wordnik.com. [Sabatini's Perfect Hero] Reference
Underneath, he was wearing tatty stained briefs that were frayed in the leg holes. From Wordnik.com. [Manhattan Masochists in Spankin��� Hamptons] Reference
Her tatty black was a long-sleeved St Laurent dress that made the least of her curves. From Wordnik.com. [Bonecrack]
Ancient tatty textbooks and mathematical papers lie scattered about on desk and floor. From Wordnik.com. [Gravity's Rainbow]
She had covered herself in a set of tatty, head-to-toe black veils she found somewhere. From Wordnik.com. [The Wizard Of London]
Youth culture, in all its tatty, unselfconscious glory, was ever-more-noisily being born. From Wordnik.com. [I Tina]
Worse, her hair had come loose and was hanging round her shoulders in a very tatty fashion. From Wordnik.com. [Grasp A Nettle]
Wear a tatty suit and you got the tatty assignments; good clothes earned the superior ones. From Wordnik.com. [Frost at Christmas]
This foyer looked like the aftermath without marine life stirring beneath the tatty carpet. From Wordnik.com. [The Great California Game]
She paused on the corner by the few rather tatty shops and looked hopefully in either direction. From Wordnik.com. [The Course Of True Love]
It was not just old but distinctly tatty, with stains down the front and a long tear in one sleeve. From Wordnik.com. [No Laughing Matter]
The magazine is unprofessionally produced (to be honest it is a bit tatty) but has some great articles. From Wordnik.com. [Camelot Frequently Asked Questions List Version 1.1 by Chris Thornborrow] Reference
Perhaps she would buy a sandwich and go and sit in the churchyard tucked away between the tatty streets. From Wordnik.com. [Two Weeks To Remember]
He went all the way to the rear, where a tatty little teenager with badly bleached hair was sitting at a table for two. From Wordnik.com. [Born To Run]
He was glad when they left the city at last and into the countryside, where at least things didn't look quite as tired and tatty. From Wordnik.com. [Brightly Burning]
In the middle of squalor and close to tatty schools with broken windows and dirt-poor pupils stands a palatial school subsidised by. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The building front was gray cinder blocks, with two boarded up window openings, and the swinging doors were a tatty shade of faded green. From Wordnik.com. [Corpse in the Abstract]
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