tattily


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Adv.1.tattily - in a cheap manner; "a cheaply dressed woman approached him in the bar"
inexpensively, cheaply
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tattily

adv (inf) dressed → schäbig; produced, manufactured → schlampig (inf)
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
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