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down at heel adjective

• (of a shoe) with the heel worn down.
• having a poor, shabby appearance.
• "down-at-heel areas"
Similar: run down, dilapidated, in disrepair, neglected, uncared-for, unmaintained, depressed, seedy, insalubrious, squalid, sleazy, slummy, seamy, sordid, dingy, mean, wretched, crummy, scruffy, scuzzy, grungy, grotty, shacky, skanky, shabby, shabbily dressed, poorly dressed, shoddy, ragged, out at elbows, tattered, mangy, sorry, disreputable, unkempt, bedraggled, messy, dishevelled, ungroomed, ill-groomed, slatternly, untidy, slovenly, dirty, filthy, tatty, the worse for wear, yucky, raggedy,
Opposite: smart, stylish,


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