Dictionary entry
Tattier
Pronunciation
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Myanmar Meaning
(Adj[com]) tatty
Definition
tatty /'tæti/ adj ( -ier, -iest ) ( infml ) ေဟာင္းႏြမ္းစုတ္ျပတ္ေသာ။ tatty old clothes ❍ a tatty office.
Examples
- ‘To this day I'd rather walk around in a tatty shirt than break out the needle and thread to fix it myself.’
- ‘A tatty
- threadbare curtain rises to the accompaniment of a circus drum-roll.’
- ‘These include banning sportswear and tatty jeans
- more bouncers
- an orderly queuing system
- better foyer lighting
- a strict ID policy and training bar staff to refuse to serve drunks and eject rowdy customers.’
- ‘Phased cuts in educational expenditure as part of Structural Adjustment Programmes left buildings in a tatty
- dangerous and unsanitary condition.’
- ‘These are the scruffy
- barefoot
- rag-tag
- tatty little street urchins of the night that come out of their hiding spots once downtown Rangoon is deserted.’
- ‘We are very short of space and ideally I would like to knock down this tatty building and start again.’
- ‘The furniture is tatty and the books looked about as appetising as goods in a car boot sale.’
- ‘Even James
- the valet
- looked tired and somewhat tatty in a threadbare jacket and fraying neckscarf.’
- ‘The action takes place in a tatty
- family-run city hotel managed by Helena (Mercedes Morán) who is currently seething at the news that her ex-husband has just fathered twins by his new wife.’
- ‘In a country where even the hospitals are usually freshly painted
- visitors would report on how tatty Nasa facilities always looked
- complete with ‘rusting pipes and crumbling concrete’.’
- ‘A third guy
- who copped a hefty fine and a community-based order on a burglary charge
- wandered in wearing an old pair of trackie daks (with a hole in one knee) and a tatty old jumper.’
- ‘The condition of the interior would best be described as tatty.’
- ‘When they saw this 70-odd-year-old bloke in tatty green trousers walking towards them they thought it was an old farmer trying to get help for some young pilot who was in trouble.’
- ‘Bookshop rummaging this afternoon
- ended up with the exchange of $4.50 for a dog-eared tatty copy of Motel Chronicles & Hawk Moon by Sam Shepard.’
- ‘A man
- wearing tatty clothes and an eye patch over his left eye
- held out a grimy hand.’
- ‘I sat somewhat nervously on a hard and threadbare seat in a tatty compartment
- watching the last of the commuters run towards it and jump on.’
- ‘It's all very well saying that a worn and tatty book got that way because it's been well used
- and continues to be well used
- but they don't look good on my new shelves.’
- ‘It needs to look at infrastructure and the streets of tatty old ex-boarding houses.’
- ‘He looked dishevelled in old
- crumpled clothes
- his hair matted and his lips cracking
- his tatty shirt a poor defence against the biting cold.’
- ‘In front is a tatty metal-roofed house on stilts with walls of thin
- holey plywood daubed in graffiti.’