| 1 | You look rather shabby in those rags. | |
| 2 | You look a bit tatty in these clothes. | |
| 3 | Aren't you ashamed of yourself for saying such a thing? | |
| 4 | In general, she could accept the family life in all its crowded inadequacy. | |
| 5 | The traffic was aggressive and choked, the pedestrian crossings deadly, the buses overcrowded, the train stations scruffy and underfunded. |