Definitions
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- adverb In a
tatty manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a cheap manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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But, folks, that tattily-shrink-wrapped dvd in the bottom of the bargain bin at your local Wal-Mart is nothing less than buried treasure.
REVISITING GENIUS: “Consequences, David…” « the balcony fool 2008
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Three years on, and the conflict has become wallpaper in the background of everyone's lives, sporadically calling attention to itself by spooling, tattily, into our eyeline, its morose countenance demanding attention and repair.
36 months Alistair Myles 2006
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Three years on, and the conflict has become wallpaper in the background of everyone's lives, sporadically calling attention to itself by spooling, tattily, into our eyeline, its morose countenance demanding attention and repair.
Archive 2006-03-01 Alistair Myles 2006
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Rhoda at any age, and dressed as tattily as she was now in a dark green cotton summer skirt and a top in a shade of sludge, would still be remarkable to look at.
The Fifth Rapunzel Gill, B. M. 1991
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Monistic code free dvd player chokey swainsona alex shelfful profanely has autocratically tattily nonesuch on his submariner to channukah childbearing ottar, limb the banknote.
Rational Review 2009
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