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									[ adjective ] in deplorable condition  Examples "a street of bedraggled tenements" "a broken-down fence" "a ramshackle old pier" "a tumble-down shack" Related terms | 
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									[ adjective ] in deplorable condition  Synonyms Examples "a street of bedraggled tenements" "a broken-down fence" "a ramshackle old pier" "a tumble-down shack" Used in print(Bell I. Wiley, "Home Letters of Johnny Reb and Billy...) A second reported that the dilapidated houses in Virginia `` look_like the latter end of original_sin and hard_times '' . Related terms | 
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