(1) The action takes place in a tatty , family-run city hotel managed by Helena (Mercedes Moru00e1n) who is currently seething at the news that her ex-husband has just fathered twins by his new wife.

(2) It needs to look at infrastructure and the streets of tatty old ex-boarding houses.

(3) A third guy, who copped a hefty fine and a community-based order on a burglary charge, wandered in wearing an old pair of trackie daks (with a hole in one knee) and a tatty old jumper.

(4) The tents which are dotted about, range from top mountaineering quality to tatty improvised structures made of bamboo and straw.

(5) A tatty , threadbare curtain rises to the accompaniment of a circus drum-roll.

(6) Even James, the valet, looked tired and somewhat tatty in a threadbare jacket and fraying neckscarf.

(7) There are, I concede, more deserving causes than u2018hack forced to eat sub-standard food in tatty restaurant at someone else's expenseu2019.

(8) He looked dishevelled in old, crumpled clothes, his hair matted and his lips cracking, his tatty shirt a poor defence against the biting cold.

(9) Phased cuts in educational expenditure as part of Structural Adjustment Programmes left buildings in a tatty , dangerous and unsanitary condition.

(10) To this day I'd rather walk around in a tatty shirt than break out the needle and thread to fix it myself.

(11) In front is a tatty metal-roofed house on stilts with walls of thin, holey plywood daubed in graffiti.

(12) Bookshop rummaging this afternoon, ended up with the exchange of $4.50 for a dog-eared tatty copy of Motel Chronicles & Hawk Moon by Sam Shepard.

(13) The condition of the interior would best be described as tatty .

(14) The furniture is tatty and the books looked about as appetising as goods in a car boot sale.

(15) These are the scruffy, barefoot, rag-tag, tatty little street urchins of the night that come out of their hiding spots once downtown Rangoon is deserted.

(16) A man, wearing tatty clothes and an eye patch over his left eye, held out a grimy hand.

(17) It's all very well saying that a worn and tatty book got that way because it's been well used, and continues to be well used, but they don't look good on my new shelves.

(18) When they saw this 70-odd-year-old bloke in tatty green trousers walking towards them they thought it was an old farmer trying to get help for some young pilot who was in trouble.

(19) These include banning sportswear and tatty jeans, more bouncers, an orderly queuing system, better foyer lighting, a strict ID policy and training bar staff to refuse to serve drunks and eject rowdy customers.

(20) In a country where even the hospitals are usually freshly painted, visitors would report on how tatty Nasa facilities always looked, complete with u2018rusting pipes and crumbling concreteu2019.

(21) We are very short of space and ideally I would like to knock down this tatty building and start again.

(22) Tweed, tatty hair-cuts, lots of comb-overs, ruddy cheeks, red fleshy ears and the most enormous blue velour rosettes abound.

(23) I sat somewhat nervously on a hard and threadbare seat in a tatty compartment, watching the last of the commuters run towards it and jump on.

(24) Just how tattily suburban is it possible to become?

(25) But much of the 1960s furniture, in its tattiness , looks pretty real.

(26) It's rather terrible - not the worst that would emerge from this subgenre, but one that is fairly tattily made on most counts.

(27) Dr Fox reckons she looks a u2018tadu2019 out of place, and a u2018tadu2019 tattily dressed.

(28) It looked nicely atmospheric, very clean-lined, almost too modern next to the checkerboard tattiness of its neighbors.

(29) Despite their undeniable tattiness , the Confessions films still enjoy an ardent fan following.

(30) Looking tattily elegant, and hoping I'll be safe from stings, I climb a ladder and examine the swarm.