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dog-eared
adjective as in dilapidated
Strongest matches
adjective as in run down
Strongest matches
adjective as in scrubby
Weak matches
- all the worse for wear
- bare
- bedraggled
- broken-down
- crummy
- cure
- decayed
- decaying
- decrepit
- degenerated
- desolate
- deteriorated
- deteriorating
- dilapidated
- dingy
- disfigured
- disreputable
- down-at-heel
- faded
- frayed
- gone to seed
- mangy
- meager
- mean
- miserable
- moth-eaten
- neglected
- pitiful
- poor
- pot
- poverty-stricken
- ragged
- ramshackle
- ratty
- rickety
- ruined
- ruinous
- run down
- rundown
- scruffy
- seedy
- shoddy
- sleazy
- slipshod
- squalid
- tacky
- tattered
- tatty
- threadbare
- tired
- worn
- worn-out
- worse for wear
- wretched
adjective as in seedy
adjective as in shabby
Strongest matches
adjective as in tatty
Weak matches
- all the worse for wear
- bare
- bedraggled
- broken-down
- crummy
- cure
- decayed
- decaying
- decrepit
- degenerated
- desolate
- deteriorated
- deteriorating
- dilapidated
- dingy
- disfigured
- disreputable
- down-at-heel
- faded
- frayed
- gone to seed
- mangy
- meager
- mean
- miserable
- moth-eaten
- neglected
- pitiful
- poor
- pot
- poverty-stricken
- ragged
- ramshackle
- ratty
- rickety
- ruined
- ruinous
- run down
- rundown
- scrubby
- scruffy
- seedy
- shoddy
- sleazy
- slipshod
- squalid
- tacky
- tattered
- threadbare
- tired
- worn
- worn-out
- worse for wear
- wretched
Example Sentences
When they first came to the island, Chicken chose a dog-eared copy of Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls.
For you, maybe that translates into a bargain bin or a giveaway pile; wherever you can find books that are weathered, dog-eared and inscribed to someone else.
The ones that aren’t so nice to look at, like dog-eared paperbacks, are stored in the cabinets.
Under President Biden’s Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, the first Native American to hold the post, the bureau’s dog-eared script has acquired a few edits.
A small table with piles of dog-eared fashion and lifestyle magazines.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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