Run-down

This city may be a little run-down, but the people living here are all kind, and will welcome anyone with open arms.

The house is run-down.

The place looks run-down and like the wind could blow it away, but it's always packed with regular customers.

The shopping precinct, built in the 1960s, is tired and run-down.

We've renovated the run-down house.

They lived in a run-down cabin.

The task was made trebly difficult, however, by the badly run-down condition in which the railways of Britain had been unavoidably left at the end of the war in 1945, […].

In the Seventies the system was run-down and demoralised. Road transport was the future, the Underground was being 'managed for decline', and the system was filthier than the streets above.

Among its findings, the report says: "In recent years we have seen more stations transformed from run-down Victorian hulks, or spartan bus-sheltered platforms, into places that people can take pride in, feel comfortable in using, and which are fulfilling more of their wider potential.

Shepard: Give me a run-down of the damage. Avina: We have lost all primary power to the level. Environmental controls are not responding. Class three fires are burning in sectors 2, 3, 6 and 7. Civilian casualties are high.