Tatterdemalion meaning

Adjective: tatterdemalion

Pronunciation: (ta-tu(r)-di’mey-lee-un)

Tatterdemalion meaning:

• Worn to shreds or wearing torn clothing

Synonym: tattered

• In deplorable condition

Synonyms: bedraggled, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle

Noun: tatterdemalion

Tatterdemalion meaning: A dirty shabbily clothed urchin

Synonym: ragamuffin

Quotations: Gerald Fitzgerald – Look at that tatterdemalion, and think how came he by such notions.

Charles Neville Buck – He found no refusals for the tatterdemalion vagabonds who pattered alongside to thrust their violets over the carriage door.

Annie Fellows – Who indeed could not be spellbound, beholding that countless changing tatterdemalion caravan, go by?

Julian Ralph – A more tatterdemalion outfit than a band of these pauperized savages form it would be difficult to imagine.

Sample sentences:

1. We have visited a street of tatterdemalion tenements.
2. She got married to a tatterdemalion prince.
3. I have visited one of those tatterdemalion villages of the rust belt where the industries closed down few tears back.
4. They do not have any sympathy with tatterdemalion pride.
5. The students have advanced quickly towards the tatterdemalion to offer good clothing.
6. We did not like the tatterdemalion color of the village outside the city.
7. The thieves were a tatterdemalion crew, but they are well organised.
8. We were hundred of us tatterdemalions against three hundred swaggerers of Americans.
9. You are very tatterdemalion, good for nothing and idiotic person I have ever seen.
10. A person with tattered clothing is called a tatterdemalion.