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