tatterdemalion

Adjective

• in deplorable condition
  • a street of bedraggled tenements
    
  • a broken-down fence
    
  • a ramshackle old pier
    
  • a tumble-down shack
    

• worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing
  • a man in a tattered shirt
    
  • the tattered flag
    
  • tied up in tattered brown paper
    
  • a tattered barefoot boy
    
  • a tatterdemalion prince
    

Noun

• a dirty shabbily clothed urchin

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  bedraggled , broken-down , derelict , dilapidated , ramshackle , tumble-down , tattered , ragamuffin