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- adjective
comparative form oftatty : moretatty
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Examples
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True, the city's appearance grows tattier as you head south past half-empty sanatoriums towards its beachside nightclubs.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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So, after losing our child benefit and calculating how much the university fees are going to cost, we can now look forward to tattier schools, deeper potholes and grimier streets.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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You knew what [the audience] was going to be like ... almost to a man between 16 and 20 ... young, white, affluent kids of the particular town you're in; they're all going to have long hair; they're all going to be wearing slightly tattier clothes than they need to wear.
British Blogs 2009
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I picked up my Hitop campervan next morning - definitely older and tattier and less features (main one being - no toilet) than the one I had in New Zealand but smaller and easier to manouevre.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009
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The gleaming arena with its colourful seats stands in stark contrast to its slightly tattier neighbour, the 60,000-capacity rugby stadium where the British and Irish Lions played last summer.
Football news, match reports and fixtures | guardian.co.uk Owen Gibson, Jamie Jackson 2009
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I’m currently 22 and I know that I will still have it when I am in my 50’s, 60’s, 70’s … I am currently on my ‘third generation’ blanket, because of how they get tattier and smaller the more you use them.
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