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• s  worn and broken down by hard use
  a run-down neighborhood
• s  having the spring unwound
  a run-down watch

• It's a damp, cold November night in the run-down Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois.
• For 15 months he shared a small room with two chain smokers in a run-down hotel that housed some 400 other asylum seekers.
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• creaky
• decrepit
• derelict
• flea-bitten
• woebegone

News & Articles

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• Weirdest Scandal Ever: Foreign Knights Invade America
  When Politico gave its usual run-down of the morning’s hot topics in health care on Wednesday, one extra special blurb caught my colleague Michael Cannon’s eye.
  June 14, 2013 - Cato Institute
• Historic YWCA building to become boutique hotel
  PASADENA-The run-down historic YWCA building, which the city bought for $8.3 million through eminent domain in 2012, is set to be converted into a 150-room boutique hotel by San Francisco-based Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants.
  June 12, 2013 - Pasadena Star-News
• Breathing life into Adrian's run-down buildings
  Adrian city leaders are discussing an ordinance that could potentially increase property values and bring new life to run-down buildings. The goal is to get vacant buildings and homes cleaned up in the downtown Adrian area.
  June 11, 2013 - Toledo News Now

Quotes

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• Charles Schumer in USA Today
  To think that men and women are serving their country in the most honorable and courageous way possible and all we give them is a dilapidated, rat-infested, run-down building to recover is a disgrace,Schumer wrote. "My fear is that Walter...