Antonyms for down-at-heel


Grammar : Adj
Spell : doun-uh t-th uh-heelz or doun-uh t-th uh-heel
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdaʊn ət ðəˈhilz or ˈdaʊn ət ðəˈhil


Definition of down-at-heel

Origin :
  • of a dog, "to follow or stop at a person's heels," 1810, from heel (n.1). Also cf. heeled.
  • As in mean : adj poor; of or in inferior circumstances
  • As in tacky : adj cheap, tasteless
  • As in scrubby : adj shabby
  • As in tatty : adj shabby
Example sentences :
  • Its latter days were dreary, down-at-heel, and disreputable enough.
  • Extract from : « Art in England » by Dutton Cook
  • What a tousled-haired, down-at-heel, out-at-elbows Clerkenwell exile!
  • Extract from : « Nights in London » by Thomas Burke
  • There were two or three buckeens in the hall, and Darby and one of the down-at-heel serving-boys were laying the evening meal.
  • Extract from : « The Wild Geese » by Stanley John Weyman
  • Nothing swept and garnished; nothing evincing one grain of past or present reverence—a down-at-heel indifferent idolatry.
  • Extract from : « The Spirit of Rome » by Vernon Lee
  • She looked complacently down at her stubby little feet in their down-at-heel beaded slippers.
  • Extract from : « Olive in Italy » by Moray Dalton
  • Her bedroom slippers were still so new and pretty that it was impossible to picture them down-at-heel.
  • Extract from : « Married » by August Strindberg
  • In the house he wore slippers, which seemed always old and down-at-heel.
  • Extract from : « Hawthorne and His Circle » by Julian Hawthorne
  • Seedy and down-at-heel, they lounge about the cafés and hotels frequented by English travellers.
  • Extract from : « The Sign of Silence » by William Le Queux
  • Most of these haciendas, at any rate those deep in the country, have a very shabby and down-at-heel appearance.
  • Extract from : « The American Egypt » by Channing Arnold
  • At that moment entered Félicien Garbure, a down-at-heel elderly man, who had been wont to sit at Paragot's table.
  • Extract from : « The Belovd Vagabond » by William J. Locke

Synonyms for down-at-heel

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