tattier

True, the city's appearance grows tattier as you head south past half-empty sanatoriums towards its beachside nightclubs.

TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

So, after losing our child benefit and calculating how much the university fees are going to cost, we can now look forward to tattier schools, deeper potholes and grimier streets.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

You knew what [the audience] was going to be like ... almost to a man between 16 and 20 ... young, white, affluent kids of the particular town you're in; they're all going to have long hair; they're all going to be wearing slightly tattier clothes than they need to wear.

British Blogs 2009

I picked up my Hitop campervan next morning - definitely older and tattier and less features (main one being - no toilet) than the one I had in New Zealand but smaller and easier to manouevre.

TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009

The gleaming arena with its colourful seats stands in stark contrast to its slightly tattier neighbour, the 60,000-capacity rugby stadium where the British and Irish Lions played last summer.

Football news, match reports and fixtures | guardian.co.uk Owen Gibson, Jamie Jackson 2009

I’m currently 22 and I know that I will still have it when I am in my 50’s, 60’s, 70’s … I am currently on my ‘third generation’ blanket, because of how they get tattier and smaller the more you use them.

Security Blanket Blues | Thingamababy 2005