"decrepit state" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is usually used to describe something that has become worn out or dilapidated from age or neglect. For example, "The old house had fallen into a decrepit state, with peeling paint and dilapidated windows."
Given the decrepit state of the place in 1982, this seemed improbable to me.
The leapfrogging of decrepit state telecoms by profitable mobile telephone companies is one example.
This is mainly due to the decrepit state of the stadia.
Even that estimate proved way off, given the decrepit state of Iraq's nuclear program.
ITS economy a mixture of decrepit state industry and dubious private enterprise, Bulgaria has been a post-communist failure.
The increasingly decrepit state of Tsukiji and its position on prime Ginza real estate made the decision inevitable.
The privatization of Iraq's decrepit state-owned industries like the shoe factory, is on hold; foreign investors have stayed home.
China is dotted with decrepit state-owned coal-fired plants that each employ 900 to 1,000 people to produce just 50 to 100 megawatts.
Hence a plan that is soon likely to be approved by the cabinet to turn a few of the least decrepit state-owned firms including IOC into industrial heavyweights of the sort more commonly associated with South Korea or Taiwan.The chosen companies are known as "the nine gems" or navaratnas (see table).
India's decrepit socialist state is on its last breaths.
It would be difficult to plot more distinct points on the Broadway map than a Neil Simon play set at a sumptuous French banquet and a musical about a decrepit police state so autocratic, it outlaws the flushing of private toilets.
