(n.) A state of being in bad condition, and wanting repair.
Example Sentences:
(1) When my pictures were published, some Star Wars fans were annoyed that the house in this picture had been left in such a state of disrepair.
(2) For many decades, we’ve enriched foreign industry at the expense of American industry; subsidized the armies of other countries while allowing for the very sad depletion of our military; we’ve defended other nations’ borders while refusing to defend our own; and spent trillions and trillions of dollars overseas while America’s infrastructure has fallen into disrepair and decay.
(3) In 2012, the roof of Glen Licht House bothy sustained serious damage and if not repaired quickly, the interior will be fall into disrepair.
(4) Those properties being targeted have fallen into major disrepair and, in many cases, have been occupied by squatters and attracted antisocial behaviour such as loud parties and drug abuse.
(5) But the johads fell into disrepair a century ago during the consolidation of British rule and land management in India.
(6) Australia has committed $420m in additional aid to PNG, most to be spent on projects elsewhere in the country, including $207m on the Lae Angau hospital, the nation’s second biggest and in disrepair for decades.
(7) These blocks were built in the 90s and 00s after the one-storey housing in the hutongs was torn down for being too “old”, ironic given that many of their rapidly erected replacements have already fallen into disrepair.
(8) Other buildings where people used to work, pray or live now sit empty and in disrepair.
(9) Toddington Manor has been deserted for 20 years and allowed to fall into disrepair.
(10) Jack went to the Widnes town clerk to obtain a form allowing tenants to claim rebates when landlords let their property fall into disrepair, knocking 40% off their rent.
(11) As a result, at least a third of the structures fell into disrepair.
(12) Hampson describes Kenyatta national hospital's brachytherapy unit as having been "in a state of disrepair for several years".
(13) I know what happens with free samples: you drop out, your tree house falls into gloomy disrepair like the Fall of the Secret Hideout of Usher, you wear army surplus jackets for some reason, and the girl you like begins holding hands with someone who has an Osmonds haircut.
(14) Over the last seven years the Tories have starved the public services we rely on of resources, running them down and pushing them into disrepair,” Corbyn is expected to say.
(15) If the estate had not been left to fall into disrepair, he argues, there would be no need to demolish it.
(16) Dismayed to find his heroes sidelined by Pixar and their brand in a state of disrepair, he also resolved to do everything he could to get the old gang back together.
(17) • 726 North Indian Canyon Drive (+1 760 320 1640, moviecolonyhotel.com ); double rooms from $99 The Willows The Willows, Palm Springs Built in 1924 by attorney Samuel Untermyer , who hosted friend and fellow Palm Springs-lover Albert Einstein, the Willows was rescued from near-complete disrepair in the mid-90s by a couple of emergency room doctors from Los Angeles: husband and wife Paul Marut and Tracy Conrad.
(18) Under Brandis’s aegis the FOI system, which is supposed to foster open democracy, has tumbled into disrepair.
(19) Mercedes Guimarães, 60, who has lived in the district of Gamboa on-and-off since the mid-1960s, says that a combination of official neglect and laws designed to preserve the facades of historic buildings had resulted in decades of disrepair.
(20) The plumbing vehicle is outside the Nepalese embassy, which property websites suggest the Nepalese government would like to sell, and which has fallen into a state of disrepair, particularly noticeable next to its expensively maintained neighbours.
Tumbledown
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Tumbledown The semi-finals of BBC1’s celebrity gymnastics show Tumble had 2.9 million viewers between 6pm and 7.30pm on Saturday.
(2) Now it is as tumbledown as most of the rest of the sprawling city, with derelict planes littering its margins and weeds slowly eating the decaying concrete.
(3) The tumbledown venue named after him will be replaced as the national stadium by the towering new structure being built by the state oil company, Socar, with its 124 executive boxes and obligatory VVIP sections.
(4) There were other houses on the estate besides ours: a cottage, and a flat in the tumbledown stable block opposite our house, and a recherche dwelling called the Elephant House.
(5) It’s dappled, woozy, HD travel porn that lingers on beads of early-morning vineyard dew and charmingly tumbledown magic-hour Italian villages in a way that immediately makes you want to chuck some shirts in a bag and head for the airport.
(6) Since I was innocent, I didn’t have anything to fear,” says Ngarbaye, now secretary of the victims’ association, sitting in the organisation’s tumbledown headquarters, a few faded printouts of victims taped to the wall behind her.
(7) Like much of Moldova, it is a poverty-stricken landscape of tumbledown shacks, crumbling apartment blocks, dogs, chickens, kids and old women.
(8) Chuck's sits in a tumbledown row of shops, some shuttered, next to a place that does your taxes and, appropriately enough, a funeral home at the end of the street.
(9) Berg's new offices – a tumbledown building slated for demolition at the end of 2014 – are strictly temporary, and they say they're fearful they'll be priced out of Shoreditch for their next move.