Thought-reader

Definition

tatty /'tæti/ adj ( -ier, -iest ) ( infml ) ေဟာင္းႏြမ္းစုတ္ျပတ္ေသာ။ tatty old clothes ❍ a tatty office.

Examples

1. ‘To this day I'd rather walk around in a tatty shirt than break out the needle and thread to fix it myself.’
2. ‘A tatty
3. threadbare curtain rises to the accompaniment of a circus drum-roll.’
4. ‘These include banning sportswear and tatty jeans
5. more bouncers
6. an orderly queuing system
7. better foyer lighting
8. a strict ID policy and training bar staff to refuse to serve drunks and eject rowdy customers.’
9. ‘Phased cuts in educational expenditure as part of Structural Adjustment Programmes left buildings in a tatty
10. dangerous and unsanitary condition.’
11. ‘These are the scruffy
12. barefoot
13. rag-tag
14. tatty little street urchins of the night that come out of their hiding spots once downtown Rangoon is deserted.’
15. ‘We are very short of space and ideally I would like to knock down this tatty building and start again.’
16. ‘The furniture is tatty and the books looked about as appetising as goods in a car boot sale.’
17. ‘Even James
18. the valet
19. looked tired and somewhat tatty in a threadbare jacket and fraying neckscarf.’
20. ‘The action takes place in a tatty
21. 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.’
22. ‘In a country where even the hospitals are usually freshly painted
23. visitors would report on how tatty Nasa facilities always looked
24. complete with ‘rusting pipes and crumbling concrete’.’
25. ‘A third guy
26. who copped a hefty fine and a community-based order on a burglary charge
27. wandered in wearing an old pair of trackie daks (with a hole in one knee) and a tatty old jumper.’
28. ‘The condition of the interior would best be described as tatty.’
29. ‘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.’
30. ‘Bookshop rummaging this afternoon
31. ended up with the exchange of $4.50 for a dog-eared tatty copy of Motel Chronicles & Hawk Moon by Sam Shepard.’
32. ‘A man
33. wearing tatty clothes and an eye patch over his left eye
34. held out a grimy hand.’
35. ‘I sat somewhat nervously on a hard and threadbare seat in a tatty compartment
36. watching the last of the commuters run towards it and jump on.’
37. ‘It's all very well saying that a worn and tatty book got that way because it's been well used
38. and continues to be well used
39. but they don't look good on my new shelves.’
40. ‘It needs to look at infrastructure and the streets of tatty old ex-boarding houses.’
41. ‘He looked dishevelled in old
42. crumpled clothes
43. his hair matted and his lips cracking
44. his tatty shirt a poor defence against the biting cold.’
45. ‘In front is a tatty metal-roofed house on stilts with walls of thin
46. holey plywood daubed in graffiti.’