adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He made a fortune buying run-down houses and fixing them up to sell.
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I was feeling too run-down to go for my morning jog.
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Since the textile company moved out, the area's gotten very run-down .
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The men were hiding in an abandoned theater in a run-down part of the city.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After they had deposited their bags at the hotel, itself ramshackle and run-down , they had gone on to the hospital.
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He was wearing a torn and spotted cotton bathrobe and a pair of run-down slippers.
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I find a tiny winding street in the Marais that takes me to a shack in the courtyard of a run-down mansion.
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Meir Ahronson, wearing a bathrobe and a pair of run-down slippers, opened the door.
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Or is the genuine Dublin culture to be found in the new sprawling suburbs with its run-down libraries and shopping malls?
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The distant fading signals a run-down age of degenerate belief.
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The vehicles will be given to the National Association of Boys' Clubs and will tour run-down inner-city areas.