adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
threadbare/worn (= very thin and in bad condition )
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It was a dingy room with a threadbare carpet.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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his threadbare cotton shirt
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She stood shivering in her threadbare dress.
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There was a clean but threadbare rug on the floor beside the bed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Despite her bleak background and threadbare , Dickensian sartorial habits, she certainly transmits an aura of elegance and gentility.
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He was dressed in a scrupulously clean but threadbare dhoti and he wore a pale blue turban which exactly matched his eyes.
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Honor had written to ask for some threadbare rugs to be replaced.
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I preferred threadbare hand-me-downs to clothes that exuded boredom from every seam.
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Increasingly, threadbare public-school systems are turning to parents for goods and services that taxpayers have stopped providing.
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The sheets lay tangled, hanging down on the threadbare carpet.
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They basked like reptiles till the sun penetrated the threadbare material and warmed them into movement.