moth-eaten

For a contemporary manifestation of this moth-eaten brand of tyranny, look no further than Hamas-ruled Gaza.

I also saw the clerk busy folding up a moth-eaten velvet pall—not a sight for Christmas Day.

Come one, come all—all you moth-eaten, lousy stiffs from Stiffville.

In impatient haste he tossed out some old novels, caps, a blazer, a roll of moth-eaten bunting.

When we go to see them in the evening we find him wrapped in a moth-eaten gray coat and a cap on his head.

They had hurried on because they were anxious to bring the spoils of the chase to Simla ere the skins grew moth-eaten.