down-at-heel

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Attributive form of down at heel
Something that is down-at-heel is in a in bad condition because it has been used too much or has not been looked after properly. If you say that someone is down-at-heel, you mean that they are wearing old, worn clothes because they have little money. a down-at-heel disco in central East Berlin. a down-at-heel waitress in a greasy New York diner. = shabby. unattractive and not well cared for, because of a lack of money
Shabbily dressed, slovenly; impoverished

Last year, he was down at heel, homeless and had an erratic relationship with his family.

In poor condition, especially due to having worn heels; worn-out, shabby

A pair of Oxford-mixture trousers . . .fell in a series of not the most graceful folds over a pair of shoes sufficiently down at heel to display a pair of very soiled white stockings.

{s} badly dressed due to lack of money; shabbily dressed ; wearing old clothes or ragged clothes due to lack of money; dilapidated; of run-down look
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