tumbledown

• Going through the dirty streets, they reached the Sultan's tumbledown-looking palace, where His Majesty was seen seated in a half-open apartment facing the street, furnished with divans and piles of mats. —  The Three Commanders
• Squire Lorrimer was very glad indeed to find such a purchaser as my father for his tumbledown old place The Towers tumbledown!" —  Red Rose and Tiger Lily or, In a Wider World
• Just before we finish let us change it once more, and leaving beautiful Wildtree and its happy family, let us fly to a sorry, tumbledown, desolate shed five miles away, on the hill-side. —  A Dog with a Bad Name
• The old Rectory was a tumbledown, inconvenient place, always in dilapidation, for as soon as one part of it was repaired another fell through; and the Rector opened his heart and his purse, both large and generous, and built a new one. —  Elster's Folly
• Now he was old and had retired up the valley to the home he had long established there beside his copra furnace and his shrine of the Sacred Heart of Jesus He led me to the abandoned shack, a long room, tumbledown, moist, festooned with cobwebs, the counters and benches black with reminiscences of twenty thousand tradings and Chinese meals. —  White Shadows in the South Seas

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

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