worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing
<adj.all> a man in a tattered shirt the tattered flag tied up in tattered brown paper a tattered barefoot boy a tatterdemalion prince
in deplorable condition
<adj.all> a street of bedraggled tenements a broken-down fence a ramshackle old pier a tumble-down shack
Tatterdemalion \Tat`ter*de*mal"ion\, n. [Tatter + OF. desmaillier to break the meshes of, to tear: cf. OF. maillon long clothes, swadding clothes, F. maillot. See {Tatter}, and {Mail} armor.] A ragged fellow; a ragamuffin. --L'Estrange.