Daily Sentence

Each day the wordsmiths at Dictionary.com select one word to be the Word of the Day. But a word without a sentence is like a wingnut without a bolt—useless. Here, we give these words a proper home, and some dignity. Woof!
Jul 18
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Tatterdemalion

Erma B. is a true piece of Pittsburgh street meat, an oily tatterdemalion in bad decline, a toothless blow job machine on a first-name basis with every motel owner in the city—and I still owe her two, wait, three…four turkey sandwiches.