noun
- A dirty shabbily clothed urchin.
- synonyms: ragamuffin
adjective
- Worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing.
- usage: "a man in a tattered shirt"; "the tattered flag"; "tied up in tattered brown paper"; "a tattered barefoot boy"; "a tatterdemalion prince"
- synonyms: tattered
- In deplorable condition.
- usage: "a street of bedraggled tenements"; "a broken-down fence"; "a ramshackle old pier"; "a tumble-down shack"
- synonyms: bedraggled, broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tumble-down
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