Synonyms for tumbledown


Grammar : Adj
Spell : tuhm-buh l-doun
Phonetic Transcription : ˈtʌm bəlˌdaʊn

Top 10 synonyms for tumbledown Other synonyms for the word tumbledown

Définition of tumbledown

  • adj ruinous
Example sentences :
  • As he spoke he mounted a flight of steps to a tumbledown veranda.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 » by Various
  • Carmena reined in to jerk her thumb at a tumbledown brush hut.
  • Extract from : « Bloom of Cactus » by Robert Ames Bennet
  • It held its sittings in a tumbledown building in an obscure Calcutta lane.
  • Extract from : « My Reminiscences » by Rabindranath Tagore
  • Farina beheld the Thier at the entrance of a tumbledown tent.
  • Extract from : « The Short Works of George Meredith » by George Meredith
  • She noticed a small, tumbledown cottage which stood at the edge of a ravine.
  • Extract from : « The Deserted Yacht » by Mildred A. Wirt, AKA Ann Wirt
  • The family live in a tumbledown house at the edge of the city.
  • Extract from : « School Credit for Home Work » by Lewis Raymond Alderman
  • A tumbledown stone dyke, overgrown with mosses and grass, surrounded it.
  • Extract from : « Anne Of Avonlea » by Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • I am bound to add, of my own experience, that Maybole is tumbledown and dreary.
  • Extract from : « Essays of Travel » by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • But that one has been shabby and tumbledown ever since I can remember.
  • Extract from : « Why Joan? » by Eleanor Mercein Kelly
  • There is no one else who would come to see me at that tumbledown old place.
  • Extract from : « The Duke's Children » by Anthony Trollope
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