tatty

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tatty /ˈtæ ti/ ?

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Back then, Bettie was caviar only to the purchasers of girlie mags, tatty titles like Wink, Whisper and Flirt, where she was the preeminent pinup queen of her day.
Not in The New Yorker or Esquire or The Partisan Review at least, not for our immediate purposes but in tatty 35-cent magazines dedicated to science fiction.
Printed on tatty black-and-white stock, WWN was the journalistic guilty pleasure of the '80s and' 90s.

"If you went to some of our educational institutions today you would see that they are pretty tatty in terms of there physical infrastructure, we need to rebuild them," Mr Costello said.
on Sep 12, 2007 By: Peter Costello Source: The Age
"It reminds me of the Liberace museum in Las Vegas," Mr. Davies said, according to The Times, "where the great man's tatty stage costumes are exhibited, each with a fabulous price tag, and we are supposed to be uplifted."
on Oct 9, 2008 By: Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Source: New York Times
"We have seven palm trees," Franks says. "They're very tatty. They're borderline terrible. But they do a good job. On the pilot, it was the same one, out the same window. We wanted to put a line in the show, like, 'That tree is following...
on Jul 6, 2007 By: Steve Franks Source: Jamaica Gleaner