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tattered
/ ˈtætəd /
adjective
- ragged or worn
a tattered old book
- wearing ragged or torn clothing
tattered refugees
- damaged, defeated, or in disarray
he believes he can bring the tattered party together
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- un·tattered adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
He wears his characteristic white shalwar kameez with a tattered gray waistcoat.
They have the tattoos, the face paint, and the tattered clothes, and they hold the door for people and say “thank you.”
The sun and wind have caused me to become tattered and torn.
The works are shown sequentially, opening with the original photo of Freud in all its tattered glory.
Instead of playing the young anti-Christ, he now wears a tattered robe and helps deliver the baby, who is no longer real.
The tattered outcast dozes on his bench while the chariot of the wealthy is drawn by.
The stranger, who had stood in the shade, now came forward to the fire, and Dorothy assisted her to remove her tattered cloak.
The Mexican immediately pulled off his ragged slouch-hat and his tattered coat.
His hands, slipped within the tattered blue sleeves, grasped tightly each the elbow of the other arm.
If he could but find the tattered blue kimono worn during that upward journey from Kiu Shiu!
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