tattered (adj.)
- beat-up
- bedraggled
- blowzy
- broken-down
- careless
- chintzy
- cleft
- cloven
- cracked
- cut
- dilapidated
- dingy
- dowdy
- draggled
- frayed
- frowzy
- frumpish
- frumpy
- grubby
- holey
- informal
- lacerate
- lacerated
- loose
- lumpen
- mangled
- messy
- mussy
- mutilated
- negligent
- patchy
- poky
- ragged
- ratty
- rent
- riven
- ruinous
- run-down
- scraggly
- scruffy
- seedy
- severed
- shabby
- shoddy
- shredded
- slack
- slatternly
- slipshod
- sloppy
- slovenly
- sluttish
- sordid
- split
- squalid
- tacky
- tatty
- threadbare
- torn
- unkempt
- unsightly
- untidy
Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear;
Robes and furr'd gowns hide all.
Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!
Long has it waved on high,
And many an eye has danced to see
That banner in the sky.
