<adj.all> a ratty old overcoat shabby furniture an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains
tastelessly showy
<adj.all> a flash car a flashy ring garish colors a gaudy costume loud sport shirts a meretricious yet stylish book tawdry ornaments
Tatty \Tat"ty\, n.; pl. {Tatties}. [Hind. [.t]a[.t][.t][imac].] A mat or screen of fibers, as of the kuskus grass, hung at a door or window and kept wet to moisten and cool the air as it enters. [India] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Her tatty little shift, the bare plank floor, the spare furniture are all blatantly real.
John Conklin's sets give us four different views of the bar and backroom of Harry Hope's clapped-out rooming house in dark shades of grey, brown and green, the chairs and tables as tatty and mismatched as their occupants.
The New York dealer Stanley Moss paid $2.1 million for a smallish El Greco estimated at $400,000 by Christie's. The tatty Titian was knocked down for $1.1 million (estimate: $500,000).
You see it in the bleak scenery, a once-picturesque village run over by oil tanks and tatty little mobile homes.
Here she makes do with what Mr. Benton has given Nadine: a tatty kind of period elegance she's picked up from magazines like "Modern Screen."