tatty

Wear on a new house is detrimental and looks tatty quickly.

You could have torn those tatty bits of paper off the thing before giving it to me Apple

Mine have become tatty very quickly — perhaps just because I wear them too much?

I'm right with you on this one. I personally think the old 'don't be evil' motto is looking very tatty these days.

And although it is tatty at street level, it has the same transit connections as the rest of downtown.

Info came from a tatty copy of a guidebook, word of mouth, and reading the lonely planet forum.

> If anything, having a tatty, battered old > bike affords more status as it attests to > a long and lasting love.

Funnily enough, proper serious money can be spotted in Mayfair/South Ken etc by how tatty and casual their clothes are.

What I'm hearing from friends & family is that since folks are spending lots more time at home these days, plans for replacing old and tatty furniture are being made.

A used-but-not-tatty luxury item is still luxurious, and while it won't impress the already-wealthy it will carry cachet with the upwardly-mobile or the general public.

We intuitively interpret the second-tier airports with crappy facilities, the tatty seat upholstery and the ugly websites as signals of trustworthiness, because we can see where the corners have been cut to save money.

I understood the point the article was trying to make here, but, actually, it's become almost a nightmare to find a Micro USB cable in my home, so I had to answer "yes".Every time one breaks or gets tatty I bin it and don't replace, because, really, the only thing I need it for is my PS4 controller and the baby monitor.