down at the heel

down at the heel
Synonyms and related words:
beat-up, bedraggled, beggared, beggarly, bereaved, bereft, blowzy, careless, chintzy, deprived, dilapidated, disadvantaged, dowdy, down-at-heel, down-at-the-heels, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, fleeced, frayed, frazzled, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, full of holes, ghettoized, grubby, holey, impoverished, in need, in rags, in shreds, in tatters, in want, indigent, informal, loose, lumpen, mendicant, messy, mussy, necessitous, needy, negligent, on relief, out at elbows, patchy, pauperized, poky, poverty-stricken, ragged, raggedy, ratty, ruinous, scraggly, scruffy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, slack, slatternly, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, sordid, squalid, starveling, stripped, tacky, tattered, tatty, torn, underprivileged, unkempt, unneat, unsightly, untidy

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  • down-at-the-heel — • down at heel • down at the heel • down at the heels adj Poorly kept up or dressed shabby; not neat; sloppy. John is always down at the heels, but his sister is always very neat. Old houses sometimes look down at the heel …   Словарь американских идиом

  • down at the heel — (Amer.) badly dressed due to lack of money; shabbily dressed ; wearing old clothes or ragged clothes due to lack of money; dilapidated; of run down look …   English contemporary dictionary

  • down-at-the-heel — adjective see down at heel * * * down at the heel «DOWN uht thuh HEEL», adjective, adverb. shabby; slovenly: »He had a ragged down at the heel lk …   Useful english dictionary

  • down at (the) heel(s) — idi down at (the) heel(s), dressed in shabby clothing; looking slovenly …   From formal English to slang

  • down-at-the-heel — adjective see down at the heels …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • To be down at the heel — Heel Heel, n. [OE. hele, heele, AS. h[=e]la, perh. for h[=o]hila, fr. AS. h[=o]h heel (cf. {Hough}); but cf. D. hiel, OFries. heila, h[=e]la, Icel. h[ae]ll, Dan. h[ae]l, Sw. h[ a]l, and L. calx. [root]12. Cf. {Inculcate}.] 1. The hinder part of… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • down at the heel — phrasal see down at heel …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • down-at-the-heel — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective See down at heel …   English dictionary for students

  • down at the heel — phrasal see down at heel …   Useful english dictionary

  • down-at-the-heels — • down at heel • down at the heel • down at the heels adj Poorly kept up or dressed shabby; not neat; sloppy. John is always down at the heels, but his sister is always very neat. Old houses sometimes look down at the heel …   Словарь американских идиом

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