Beat-up

Synonyms for "beat-up" (49 found)

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Adjective(2 words)

beat up bedraggled blowzy broken down careless chintzy decrepit derelict

Strong matches (15)

dilapidated down at the heel draggled frowzy frumpish grubby informal loose lumpen messy mussy negligent poky ragged raggedy

Related words (24)

ramshackle ruined ruinous run down scraggly seedy shabby shoddy slack slatternly slipshod sloppy slovenly slummy sluttish sordid squalid tacky tattered tottery

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tumbledown unkempt unsightly untidy

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damaged

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Yanni drives a silver beat-up truck.

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Gabor bought Martha's beat-up Volkswagen.

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Get us something better than that beat-up Volkswagen.

Source: tatoeba (11970744)

2009, Natasha Robinson, 'James Packer book outrage a beat-up, says Paul Barry', The Australian, Business section “It has been suggested that this is a vicious book, a poisonous book, that it's a disgrace to have written it,” Mr Barry said at today's book launch. “That's a total beat-up."

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