moth-eaten Betydning & definition

Eksempler på moth-eaten

• For too long, we have had scruffy, run-down, dirty, dingy and moth-eaten resorts.

• The idea of an industrial strategy is mildewed, moth-eaten and one might even say half-baked.

• These moth-eaten impediments in the smooth working of our machine have had no justification for 30 years.

• I think that the subject of erosion of sovereignty is getting a little moth-eaten.

• Is it not time that this rather moth-eaten, twenty-year-old control was re-examined or revised?

• The matter needs to be addressed if that sector is not to become moth-eaten and overburdened.

• They are losing their veneration for what is virtually the moth-eaten squirearchy and are feeling a much greater sense of power.

• Once it appears as a moth-eaten barrier, as it already does to some people, and will do to an increasing number, it will really be imperilled.