His house is a tumbledown affair.
Source: tatoeba (285691)
Tumbledown
Synonyms for "tumbledown" (69 found)
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Translations
8 translations across 7 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- порутен adj (in disrepair, poorly maintained)
- разнебитен adj (in disrepair, poorly maintained)
Danish
1 entries- fallefærdig adj (in disrepair, poorly maintained)
Hungarian
1 entries- ütött-kopott adj (in disrepair, poorly maintained)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- falleferdig adj (in disrepair, poorly maintained)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- falleferdig adj (in disrepair, poorly maintained)
Russian
1 entries- обветша́лый adj (in disrepair, poorly maintained)
Spanish
1 entries- ruinoso adj (in disrepair, poorly maintained)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
We found the horse sheltering from the elements behind a tumbledown shed.
Source: tatoeba (11679864)
They lived in a tumbledown shack on the edge of the woods.
Source: wiktionary
The cab pulled up in front of a tumbledown cheap ‘villa’ in an unfinished cheap neighbourhood, — the whole place a living monument of the defeat of the speculative builder.
Source: wiktionary
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