decrepit

• In the shifting firelight he looked ancient and decrepit, a man with ground glass in his joints. —  FSF,January2007
• Even in that light their emaciated condition testified to her extreme age; but they were not decrepit, they seemed to glow with a steady light, an inward and consuming energy You may leave us, Emily," said the voice, and Emily, who had been hovering with what I somehow felt to be a hint of malice, unwillingly withdrew. —  The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
• The bookseller, a little wrinkled, dried-up old man, like a decrepit tortoise, offered him books, taking down his choicest volumes one by one, and spreading them out under his eyes, speaking all the time in an insufferable nasal monotone. —  The Child of Pleasure
• They are generally in cloth or calf bindings which are almost invariably somewhat decrepit, being either rubbed or perished, or cracked at the joints. —  The Book-Hunter at Home
• Crashaw looked more like a decrepit monkey than ever, huddled up in his chair, his back bow-shaped. —  The Captives

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