0 (especially of cloth or paper) badly torn -- （尤指布料或紙張）破爛的，破舊的
The flag was tattered and threadbare. 這面旗破爛不堪。
The assertion that, by splitting the process in two, the end is attained more quickly than by doing it in one looks rather tattered.
We now need to rebuild public confidence in a tattered policy.
It is a shame that once again his reputation is somewhat tattered and torn.
But unfair rates is what is on the table, along with the tattered remnants of more than 60 other proposals that went before.
I want to talk about the social contract, or its tattered remnants, in the last few minutes of my speech.
Perhaps this is part of the social contract—that tattered non-document.
He seems to have no notion of the professional ethic—tattered at the edges though it may be sometimes these days.
There was a lot of misery there, as one could see from the tattered curtains—apologies for curtains.
