Crossword clues for moth-eaten
moth-eaten
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Moth-eaten \Moth"-eat`en\, a. having holes due to eating by moths or moth larvae; -- of cloth or clothing.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Containing holes by having been eaten by moth larvae. 2 old and in poor condition
WordNet
adj. showing signs of wear and tear; "a ratty old overcoat"; "shabby furniture"; "an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains" [syn: ratty, shabby, tatty]
worn or eaten away by (or as if by) moths; "moth-eaten blankets" [syn: mothy]
lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new; "moth-eaten theories about race" [syn: old, stale]
Usage examples of "moth-eaten".
StregaSchloss on the end of a moth-eaten damask curtain was a bad idea, or maybe the sight of the Borgia money going to such an undeserving home had simply robbed the estate lawyer of the will to live, but miraculously his abseiling suicide attempt didnt kill him.
But if I am no moth-eaten alchemist, neither am I some newfangled astronomer who feigns eccentrics and epicycles and suchlike in order to save the phenomena, when he knows full well that there are no such engines within the orbs.
This shrunken symbol of themselves, this illustrious and moth-eaten great-grandstallun, though almost entirely transformed into keratin, was still a degree or two from nonbeing.
The moth-eaten and, yes, yes, eminently mockable prejudices of my generation.
Clusters of dried herbs hung from the ceiling, and all among them were clumps of old boots, shriveled skins, battered pans, scrap-iron, sheep-skins, useless touloupes, and on the floor musty old clothes, moth-eaten furs, and sheep-skin coats that even a moujik of the swamps would not have deigned to wear.
It was of fur, flat at the top, flat as a pie tin, with the moth-eaten earlaps turned up at the sides and looking exactly like small furry ears.
A stuffed, somewhat moth-eaten owlbear lurked in a corner, and a huge dwarven war drum served as a table for a scattering of elven runestones.
An entire stuffed horse, an Appaloosa, worn and moth-eaten, stood guard in one corner.
Only on closer inspection, as he walked the length of the chamber, did he see that the carpets were worn almost to their backings in many places, the tapestries were moth-eaten, the velvets thinnapped and shiny, and the fine woods dry and cracked.
He was not so bad once you had resigned yourself to the fact that you were in for occasional cataloguings of his armory--stone axes, copper axes, bronze axes, double-bladed axes, faceted axes, polygonal axes, scalloped axes, hammer axes, adze axes, Mesopotamian axes, Hungarian axes, Nordic axes, and all of them looking pretty moth-eaten.
He was bearded and old, wearing a moth-eaten coonskin cap, fringed buckskin pants and a checked black and white shirt.
Standing next to it was a moth-eaten Kodiak bear, an Indian birchbark canoe, a petrified log.
The feeble gleam of the light from the hearth showed Gil a hollow in the sacks of grain piled in the back of the closet, a couple of moth-eaten buffalo robes, and a very grubby patchwork quilt, but no wizard.
It was a big, moth-eaten, unmistakable relic, whose heavy, tarnished pendulum and time-stained clock face had made it a kind of focal point of our childhood.
His cloud of white hair made him look rather like an aged dandelion clock and was topped by a moth-eaten fez.