| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Informal. Tastelessly showy: brummagem, chintzy, flashy, garish, gaudy, glaring, loud, meretricious, tawdry, tinsel. See STYLE. 2. Informal. Showing signs of wear and tear or neglect: bedraggled, broken-down, decaying, decrepit, dilapidated, dingy, down-at-heel, faded, mangy, rundown, scrubby, scruffy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, sleazy, tattered, tatty, threadbare. Slang : ratty. Idioms: all the worse for wear, gone to pot (or seed) , past cure (or hope) . See BETTER. 3. Informal. Lacking style and good taste: inelegant, tasteless, unbecoming. See STYLE. 4. Informal. Quite outmoded or unfashionable: dowdy, frumpish. See NEW.
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