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• s  showing signs of wear and tear
  an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains
• s  tastelessly showy

• 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.
• He stalked through earthly life, through five wives, a drug addiction and a nervous breakdown, seeing his SF novels published in tatty Ace paperbacks, his other fiction regularly .
• 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.

• moth-eaten
• ratty
• shabby
• brassy
• cheap
• flash
• flashy
• garish
• gaudy
• gimcrack
• loud
• meretricious
• tacky
• tawdry
• trashy

News & Articles

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• Indian relatives search for missing a month after 'Himalayan tsunami'
  By Nita Bhalla DEHRADUN, India (Reuters) - The pilgrims came seeking salvation and a place in heaven, but now their faces stare from banners and tatty flyers tacked to gates and walls of Indian villages and hill-towns. Some are children, smiling as they pose between parents; others are elderly couples standing side-by-side looking into the camera. Many posters show groups from the same family ...
  July 15, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Peter Costello in The Age
  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.
• Sir Peter Maxwell Davies in New York Times
  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."
• Steve Franks in Jamaica Gleaner
  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...