Dickensianadjective
uk/dɪˈken.zi.ən/us/dɪˈken.zi.ən/relating to or similar to something described in the books of the 19th-century English writer Charles Dickens, especially living or working conditions that are below an acceptable standard:
The bathrooms in this hotel are positively Dickensian - no hot water and grime everywhere.
written by or in the style of Charles Dickens
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In bad condition
- battered
- battle-scarred
- be on the skids idiom
- beat up
- blasted
- fleabitten
- have seen better days idiom
- hors de combat
- impair
- in good, bad, etc. repair idiom
- sad
- scuff
- shabby
- shattered
- shop-soiled
- worm-eaten
- worn out
- worse
- worsen
- wrack
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