Translation for "desarrapado" to english

Desarrapado

adjective

• shabby

Translation examples

shabby adjective

Durante el tiempo de nuestra estancia, fuerza a salir del plano a los ancianos y ancianas, especialmente quienes visten ropa desarrapada.
During the time of our stay, he forces out of sight the elderly men and women, especially those wearing shabby clothes.

Aun en la mala luz, se advertía que estaba desarrapado.
Even in the poor light, it could be seen that he was shabby.

En esta ocasión estaban desnutridos, desarrapados, y algunos visiblemente enfermos.
These were ill-fed, shabby, some in obviously bad health.

Sus trajes son chillones y desarrapados; raras veces hablan;
His clothes are loud and shabby; he speaks seldom;

El desarrapado inglés sentado junto a él volvió a darle un codazo.
The shabby Englishman sitting next to him nudged him again.

Basura, fábricas y una opulencia desarrapada convivían en una apacibilidad sedada.
Slums and factories and shabby opulence bobbed sedately side by side.

Vivía con una mujer chiquita, chillona, desarrapada y de dientes carcomidos.
He lived with a short, shrill woman who wore shabby clothes and had rotting teeth.

Tuvo que controlar la cólera que sentía al tener que tratar con esa desarrapada criatura. —¿Habla en serio?
He had to restrain the white hot rage that surged through him to have to deal with such a shabby creature. “Are you serious?”

Llegó diez minutos después, un hombre fuerte y desarrapado, vestido de pantalones de mezclilla y de una chaqueta de cuero.
He arrived ten minutes later, a gangling shabby-looking fellow dressed in blue jeans and a leather jacket.

Cinco o seis jóvenes matones desarrapados, con bigotes ralos y pendientes brillantes, lo miraban con aire desafiante.
There were five or six hoodlums lounging by the grocery, young and shabby, with sparse whiskers and shining earrings, who looked at him challengingly.

Frente a Isaac, en el tren, se sentaban una niña pequeña y su padre, un desarrapado caballero con bombín y chaqueta de segunda mano.
Opposite Isaac on the train sat a small child and her father, a shabby gent in a bowler hat and second-hand jacket.