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down-at-heel
Word definitions for down-at-heel in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Attributive form of down at heel.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Bognor today is a shabby, down-at-heel place. ▪ But as any New York schoolboy will tell you, Broadway is not merely half-a-mile of down-at-heel glitz. ▪ But I didn't see any sign of it at Winter Marsh - the place just looked ...
Usage examples of down-at-heel.
His clothing was that of a down-at-heels merchant, dirty tunic and bulging-pocketed overtunic over patched and well-worn breeches and good but worn boots.
She ate a mince pie, gave Horace an extra snack of sardines, drew the rather down-at-heel arm Y chair close to the gas fire and settled down to read.
It lay across the top of Bunker Hill and you could find anything there from down-at-heels ex-Greenwich-villagers to crooks on the lam, from ladies of anybody's evening to County Relief clients brawling with haggard landladies in grand old houses with scrolled porches, parquetry floors, and immense sweeping banisters of white oak, mahogany and Circassian walnut.
The French doors let in a dazzle of white light, a grand piano filled the far corner of the room, and people in summer clothes were sitting about at card tables and in the lopsided wicker armchairs one so often finds at down-at-heel seaside resorts.
He had looked upon Ben Stowe as a down-at-heel hired man, and he forgot to consider that the fires of ambition might burn just as strongly in another as in himself.