The office was meticulously clean, despite the tattiness of it.

His eyes took in the general tattiness, and then Anders came up the stairs.

There's also a bit of tattiness that saves it from being self-consciously chic.

Similarly in smaller conferences, shabbiness and tattiness of surroundings stick out more; everyone is closer to them.

Luther had left the suitcase and the plastic bag on the bed; their tattiness looked out of place in the sleek utility of the room.

Cathy switched on the studio lights, further exposing its tattiness but adding to its intimacy.

James Esber's high-color portrait of a morphing female figure catches a sense of the prevailing tattiness.

John Conklin's set calls attention to the awkwardness of the arena stage and substitutes nondescript tackiness for French Quarter tattiness, Williams's crucial "atmosphere of decay."

After years of tattiness, all the houses along Stepford's main drag - and those on Winter Hill and Pine Tree Lane - have never been cleaner.

He has passed ordinances banning T-shirt shops, neon and tour buses in the historic district and hotels on the waterfront, lest the very element that brings visitors to Charleston, its charm, be submerged in tourist tattiness.