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down at the heel
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down at the heel
beat-up, bedraggled, beggared, beggarly, bereaved, bereft, blowzy, careless, chintzy, deprived, dilapidated, disadvantaged, dowdy, down-at-heel, down-at-the-heels, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, fleeced, frayed, frazzled, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, full of holes, ghettoized, grubby, holey, impoverished, in need, in rags, in shreds, in tatters, in want, indigent, informal, loose, lumpen, mendicant, messy, mussy, necessitous, needy, negligent, on relief, out at elbows, patchy, pauperized, poky, poverty-stricken, ragged, raggedy, ratty, ruinous, scraggly, scruffy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, slack, slatternly, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, sordid, squalid, starveling, stripped, tacky, tattered, tatty, torn, underprivileged, unkempt, unneat, unsightly, untidyFor further exploring for "down at the heel" in Webster Dictionary Online