ratty

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But when you wear faded/ratty jeans and a t-shirt it's hard to be taken seriously.

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of or characteristic of rats

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

of or characteristic of rats

adjective

showing signs of wear and tear; "a ratty old overcoat"; "shabby furniture"; "an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains"

adjective

dirty and infested with rats

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for ratty.

adjective

of or characteristic of rats

adjective

showing signs of wear and tear; "a ratty old overcoat"; "shabby furniture"; "an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains"

adjective

dirty and infested with rats

Example sentences

But when you wear faded/ratty jeans and a t-shirt it's hard to be taken seriously.

Were you guys able to survey how many and of what kinds of these ratty shacks they built and in what areas?

Teenagers tell me panhandling is still very lucrative, just throw on some ratty clothes and you still make 2x minimum wage.

They'd show up in ill-fitting ratty jeans, a wrinkled tie, with a three-week overgrowth of facial hair and grumpy demeanor.

> Take away the makeup, mess up the hair, add 50 pounds, add glasses with unfashionable rims, change to a ratty old T-shirt, and nobody will ask, "are you lost?

With the ratty code-base and aversion to contributions by OpenSSL it seems like a good candidate for abandonment.

What do you think will give you more confidence, you in a ratty but comfy t-shirt and shorts, or you dressed to the nines and knowing you look good enough to eat?Another example: that work laptop you use every single day.