in shreds and tatters
21shoddy — Synonyms and related words: NG, abject, abominable, affected, apocryphal, arrant, artificial, assumed, atrocious, awful, base, bastard, beastly, beat up, bedraggled, beggarly, beneath contempt, blameworthy, blowzy, bogus, broken down, brummagem,… …
22tacky — Synonyms and related words: Mickey Mouse, adherent, adhesive, amylaceous, base, beat up, bedraggled, blowsy, blowzy, boggy, breakable, brittle, broken down, brummagem, bulldogged, bulldoggish, bulldoggy, bullheaded, careless, cheap, cheap jack,… …
23tattered — Synonyms and related words: beat up, bedraggled, blowzy, broken down, careless, chintzy, cleft, cloven, cracked, cut, dilapidated, dingy, dowdy, down at heel, down at the heels, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, frayed, frazzled, frowzy,… …
24tatty — Synonyms and related words: base, common, dowdy, down at heel, down at the heels, frayed, frazzled, full of holes, holey, in rags, in shreds, in tatters, mean, paltry, patchy, poor, ragged, raggedy, ratty, rubbishy, scruffy, seedy, shabby, shoddy …
25torn — Synonyms and related words: affected, aggravated, agonized, alienated, broken, burned, burst, busted, checked, chipped, cleft, cloven, cracked, crazed, cut, damaged, deteriorated, devoured by, disaffected, disunited, divided, dowdy, down at heel …
26tattered — I (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. shredded, torn to pieces, ripped, ragged, cut to ribbons. ANT.: whole, complete II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Torn into or marked by shreds or tatters: ragged, raggedy, tatterdemalion. See BETTER. 2.… …
27split — Synonyms and related words: ablate, abrupt, absquatulate, abysm, abyss, aggravated, agree to disagree, alienate, alienation, allot, amputate, aperture, apportion, arroyo, assessable stock, atomize, authorized capital stock, ax, be in stitches,… …
28ribbon — [rib′ən] n. [ME riban < MFr riban, ruban < ? MDu ringband, collar < ring,RING2 + band, akin to BAND1] 1. a) a narrow strip of silk, rayon, velvet, etc. finished at the edges and of various widths, used for decoration, tying things, etc.… …
29France — /frans, frahns/; Fr. /frddahonns/, n. 1. Anatole /ann nann tawl /, (Jacques Anatole Thibault), 1844 1924, French novelist and essayist: Nobel prize 1921. 2. a republic in W Europe. 58,470,421; 212,736 sq. mi. (550,985 sq. km). Cap.: Paris. 3.… …
30performing arts — arts or skills that require public performance, as acting, singing, or dancing. [1945 50] * * * ▪ 2009 Introduction Music Classical. The last vestiges of the Cold War seemed to thaw for a moment on Feb. 26, 2008, when the unfamiliar strains …
