WHAT TO DO For all the gleaming new high-rises, retail spaces can be decrepit.
So, yes, the city elders decided some years ago, the Hollywood Bowl might be decrepit.
This turned out to be a decrepit two-story building on a dirt lane off a back street.
Grouchy and cut off — the filmmakers based his snarl and snap on that of a George Booth old guy — he pretends to be more decrepit than he is.
In previous centuries you might have had to be old, decrepit and one step away from the poorhouse to be eligible to live in one.
Though Fahey could be a trickster in the sixties, he took to performing as Blind Joe Death, tottering onstage wearing sunglasses and pretending to be a decrepit sharecropper, deftly mocking the authenticity-obsessed urban revivalists Lowenthal finds his work intimate and direct.
Between the palaces and the arch stands a magnificent 12th-century octagonal Islamic shrine, the Ziarat-i-Shahzada Husein; even though Afghans continue to pray there, it is decrepit and has no roof.
The old-fashioned term 'flivver', sometimes also known as 'jalopy'clunkerker' or 'rust bucket', refers to an automobile that is decrepit, run-down and often of minor quality (e.g. unreliable in its functioning).
"We are a great nation that has allowed the world-class national infrastructure, that our grandparents built and our parents handed down to us, to erode and suffer and starve to the point that it is decrepit and deadly," Maddow said on her show.
Back in 1990, when Albania threw off the Stalinist regime that had kept it isolated from the outside world for half a century, the first cars to pour into the country were decrepit old Fiats from Italy.
