All 3 Uses of
dilapidated
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Catch-22
- He choked up even more a second later when he spied Colonel Korn's tubby monochrome figure trotting up the curved, wide, yellow stone staircase toward him in lackadaisical haste from the great dilapidated lobby below with its lofty walls of cracked dark marble and circular floor of cracked grimy tile.†
Chpt 20
- 'He had to move back,' Yossarian argued in a vain effort to cheer up the glum, barrel-chested Indian, whose well-knit sorrel-red face had degenerated rapidly into a dilapidated, calcareous gray.†
Chpt 32
- The Colosseum was a dilapidated shell, and the Arch of Constantine had fallen.†
Chpt 39 *
Definition:
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(dilapidated) in bad condition -- especially from age and neglect