as in dilapidated
showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect
the owner has let the restaurant become increasingly tatty over the years
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Recent Examples of tatty
The carpets were tatty; the meeting rooms were ill-equipped.
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Sam Knight,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
Twenty-five years after construction, when materials get tatty and tastes change, is the danger time.
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Kevin West,
Travel + Leisure,
16 July 2025
Texas Renée likes to be alone in tatty clothes with the dogs, crisscrossing the country and hanging out at the vet, cleaning the yard or planting and pruning things.
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Hugh Grant,
Vogue,
14 Feb. 2025
The coffee table had been painted black all over and looked rather tatty.
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Alyce Collins,
Newsweek,
24 Dec. 2024
See All Example Sentences for tatty
Sam Knight,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
Twenty-five years after construction, when materials get tatty and tastes change, is the danger time.
—
Kevin West,
Travel + Leisure,
16 July 2025
Texas Renée likes to be alone in tatty clothes with the dogs, crisscrossing the country and hanging out at the vet, cleaning the yard or planting and pruning things.
—
Hugh Grant,
Vogue,
14 Feb. 2025
The coffee table had been painted black all over and looked rather tatty.
—
Alyce Collins,
Newsweek,
24 Dec. 2024
See All Example Sentences for tatty
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tatty
Adjective
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Sixteen children from the same family who were rescued from a dilapidated home in rural Ohio were living in wretched conditions with human waste all around, confined to just one room over much of the past four years, authorities said Wednesday.
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The parents and grandparents of 16 children found living in a dilapidated house in southern Ohio were arraigned Wednesday on more than a dozen felony child endangerment charges, officials said.
Adjective
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Changing their environment is more reliable and more neglected.
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Cinematographer Guillermo Garza shoots neglected settings like fine art, embracing the grime.
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“Tatty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tatty. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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