What is "disrepair"

Usage examples of "disrepair".

But it is hard to believe that the notoriously punctilious Rappites had in fact left the fences in disrepair, and it is impossible to understand why, if they had, the Owenites could not have made timely repairs.

Many more folk waited sullenly in pockets of shade or leaned against the marble facings of the grand old buildings, half-fallen into disrepair.

He has persevered with tremendous determination through the maze of owners and lessees and managers and tenants who allowed the structure to fall into such terrible disrepair.

The place looked like a ruin, two reasonably modern whitewashed buildings stuck on the edge of the clearing with doors hanging ajar and windows shattered, three thatched palapas fallen into disrepair.

At the second such, Iktis cursed sulfurously, damning all smugglers, the late madam, the Heritage and persons of whom Neeka had never heard for failing to keep the runnels in repair or at least apprising him of the locations and extents of disrepair.

The exit was unlocked, and they entered a system of tunnels and shafts, much of it collapsing from disrepair, which brought them into the automated sublevels of Shiban.

Unlike so many fearless men devoted to pickup trucks, guns, topless bars and the Southern Cross, he had not been born into the tribe of Bubbas, but rather had grown up the son of a theologian in the Northside neighborhood of Ginter Park, where old mansions were in disrepair and Civil War cannonballs on porches were popular.

The story lamented that fact, citing the building's long and honorable history, and ignoring the fact that it had fallen into disrepair because it had once been a meeting place for a group charged, perhaps truthfully, with plotting the demise of Iraq's fallen, beloved, great, and evidently soon-to-be-forgotten political leader.

Mac's next move was to diffuse the Suicidal Six, who, according to Desi the First, were in total disrepair, thanks to Desi the Second's culinary talents.

Some of the disrepair had occurred over time and under the pressure of spreading roots, but there were also signs of vandalism, marble replaced by cinder blocks or a padlock on a vault's brass door, probably not to keep the dead in, Arkady realized.

The original house, having fallen into disrepair both before and after the compulsory purchase of the grounds, had disappeared.

So far as he could distinguish, the flawless geometry was extended even to the buildings that studded the concavo-convex city blocks, although distance and the general condition of extreme disrepair made this uncertain.

As it was, though elevators and conveyor belts fell into disrepair, disuse, and finally into the oblivion of forgotten function, the essential machinery of the Ship continued its automatic service to its ignorant human freight, or waited, quiet and ready, for someone bright enough to puzzle out its key.

The dower house hadn't been occupied for eighty years and was in a sad state of disrepair.

Row upon row of two-storied red-brick garden apartments, many of them in dreadful disrepair.