"pretty run-down" is a correct and usable expression in written English.
It is typically used to describe a place or person that is dilapidated, unkempt, and in disrepair. For example, you could say "The old abandoned building had become pretty run-down over the years".
"It was pretty run-down," Mrs. Tustian said.
"I showed up looking for somewhere to stay, and the only rooms people showed me in Green Bay were pretty run-down," Davis said Thursday.
Holden declares that he isn't going to tell us "about this madman stuff that happened to me around last Christmas just before I got pretty run-down".
If my buddleia-tinged memories seem irrational, it's because the inner London of that era was pretty run-down, with derelict buildings, overgrown plots and a pervasive griminess – the sooty sediment lain down by coal fires, domestic and industrial.
Though it was once a bustling business hub, today, for the most part, it is pretty run-down and desolate.
They kept the name, gave it a Jurassic Park-style makeover and reopened it to the public, creating the ultimate family-friendly tourist destination: a still pretty run-down complex with some dinosaur figurines, some hippos, and the enduring, unavoidable legacy of a man whose cartel were responsible for anywhere between 3,000 to 60,000 deaths.
"The building is pretty run down," Mr. Nonna said.
"It was pretty run down and needed a lot of work".
The price is a little steep, especially as the apartment is situated four floors up with no lift, and the building looks pretty run down from the outside.
The estate had been pretty run down in the early 1990s but is now thriving because of an ambitious redevelopment plan, which attracted many brand-name stores and restaurants into the area.
In Kod Barq, a pretty, if run-down residential complex built by the Soviets on the edge of Mazar, the prize is the adjacent fertilizer factory.
