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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "ratty" in a sentence

    ratty example sentences

    ratty


    1. I am ratty in the morning – time of the month and all that - I snap at Alastair over nothing and by the time I leave the house – he has to move his car so I can go – I am biting my tongue so that I don’t say something I shall regret in temper


    2. ‘I’m sorry I was so ratty this morning, Alastair, you didn’t deserve it


    3. ‘You’ve had a lot to deal with over the last week, Jo, it’s not surprising that you get ratty sometimes


    4. " She was staring down at her old ratty tennis shoes, and feeling very inadequate


    5. We had this ratty rectangular table at work that had folding legs under it


    6. It looked ratty with the fur completely gone in some areas


    7. "Does she always dress that way?" Frankie wore navy slacks with a light blue oxford and a ratty old pullover


    8. I thought about how different she was from Zoe—Zoe all formal and aloof like a princess, Thalia with her ratty clothes and her rebel attitude


    9. He was wearing a ratty black trench coat over his Westover Hall uniform, which was torn and stained


    10. That’s why he added the ratty hat; thought it made it even creepier

    11. “What’ll you have, man?” this young kid with an unkempt beard, Grateful Dead T-shirt, and ratty white-boy-dread-locks tucked up in a large crocheted hat asks you


    12. They wore ratty shorts and sandals,” Faye Anne shuddered


    13. I'm Spencer Ratty, and this is my wife, Sharon Ratty


    14. as I did for the first couple of years; hide the ratty thing a few blocks away and walk the last


    15. Did you not have a ratty t-shirt and a pair of faded jeans lying around that you could've put on


    16. and looked ratty and unwashed but was a sound engineer


    17. ratty hole, did they? He knew for a fact that there were much nicer places to swim


    18. With shock and disbelief I saw it clutched a long shard of glass in its ratty hand


    19. Of course! With their ratty ancestry, Krillaz are very prone to breathing difficulties


    20. For one thing, I was in a sloppy sweater and ratty jeans, and I’d have to change and put on some makeup

    21. He’s wearing a ratty hoodie with dorky pajama pants underneath


    22. Just rows and rows of ratty looking tents


    23. I had a ratty pair of sneakers that I would wear


    24. “You talking to me?” Travis Bickle says, alone in a ratty apartment not much different from Hinckley’s


    25. Crass said that he had kicked up no end of a row because they had not called at the yard at six o'clock that morning for the ladder, instead of going for it after breakfast - making two journeys instead of one, and he had also been ratty because the big gable had not been started the first thing that morning


    26. We got an old tin lantern, and a butcher-knife without any handle, and a bran-new Barlow knife worth two bits in any store, and a lot of tallow candles, and a tin candlestick, and a gourd, and a tin cup, and a ratty old bedquilt off the bed, and a reticule with needles and pins and beeswax and buttons and thread and all such truck in it, and a hatchet and some nails, and a fishline as thick as my little finger with some monstrous hooks on it, and a roll of buckskin, and a leather dog-collar, and a horseshoe, and some vials of medicine that didn't have no label on them; and just as we was leaving I found a tolerable good curry-comb, and Jim he found a ratty old fiddle-bow, and a wooden leg


    27. (Michael pulls out a ratty little piece of paper with writing scribbled all over it


    28. As he backed away, her senses heightened and she saw it all: the unkempt hair and ratty canvas jacket, faded red shirt, and torn jeans; the dark holes of his pupils and the rapid rise and fall of his chest


    29. The Badger's caustic, not to say brutal, remarks may be imagined, and therefore passed over; but it was painful to the Rat that even the Mole, though he took his friend's side as far as possible, could not help saying, 'You've been a bit of a duffer this time, Ratty! Toad, too, of all animals!'


    30. Poor Ratty did his best, by degrees, to explain things; but how could he put into cold words what had mostly been suggestion? How recall, for another's benefit, the haunting sea voices that had sung to him, how reproduce at second-hand the magic of the Seafarer's hundred reminiscences? Even to himself, now the spell was broken and the glamour gone, he found it difficult to account for what had seemed, some hours ago, the inevitable and only thing

    31. So although, while the Rat was talking so seriously, he kept saying to himself mutinously, 'But it WAS fun, though! Awful fun!' and making strange suppressed noises inside him, k-i-ck-ck-ck, and poop-p-p, and other sounds resembling stifled snorts, or the opening of soda-water bottles, yet when the Rat had quite finished, he heaved a deep sigh and said, very nicely and humbly, 'Quite right, Ratty! How SOUND you always are! Yes, I've been a conceited old ass, I can quite see that; but now I'm going to be a good Toad, and not do it any more


    32. 'Go on, Ratty! Quick! Don't spare


    33. The Badger laughed good-humouredly and said, 'All right, Ratty! It amuses you and it doesn't hurt me


    34. They would goof around, shoplifting from drugstores, magic-markering song lyrics on the boards surrounding demolition sites, and collecting discreet photos of the ratty kids you saw more and more on the streets of Manhattan, down where the grid went crooked, the ragged and dispofuckingsessed


    35. With any luck, he’d be paired with Sewer Girl this time—maybe even get to watch her slip into her own coveralls and out of that ratty hockey jersey, now seriously the worse for wear


    36. She drew a ratty blanket up to her chest


    37. He had a black leather jacket over a ratty old Baltimore Orioles sweatshirt


    38. We stared at each other, and then at the ratty old couch, a coffee table, and a laptop computer, and no one else


    39. He was a thin, ratty blanket thrown over your shoulders in the middle of a blizzard


    40. 'Go on, Ratty! Quick! Don't spare me! What haven't I heard?'

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    Synonyms for "ratty"

    ratty moth-eaten shabby tatty

    "ratty" definitions

    of or characteristic of rats


    showing signs of wear and tear


    dirty and infested with rats