a dirty shabbily clothed urchin

[ Syn: ragamuffin ]

worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing; a man in a tattered shirt; the tattered flag; tied up in tattered brown paper; a tattered barefoot boy; a tatterdemalion prince

[ Syn: tattered ]

in deplorable condition; a street of bedraggled tenements; a broken-down fence; a ramshackle old pier; a tumble-down shack

[ Syn: bedraggled , broken-down , derelict , dilapidated , ramshackle , tumble-down ]