Antonyms for down-at-heel

Grammar : Adj

Spell : doun-uh t-th uh-heelz or doun-uh t-th uh-heel

Phonetic Transcription : ˈdaʊn ət ðəˈhilz or ˈdaʊn ət ðəˈhil

Definition of down-at-heel

Origin : of a dog, "to follow or stop at a person's heels," 1810, from heel (n.1). Also cf. heeled.

As in mean : adj poor; of or in inferior circumstances
As in tacky : adj cheap, tasteless
As in scrubby : adj shabby
As in tatty : adj shabby

Example sentences :

Its latter days were dreary, down-at-heel, and disreputable enough.
Extract from : « Art in England » by Dutton Cook

What a tousled-haired, down-at-heel, out-at-elbows Clerkenwell exile!
Extract from : « Nights in London » by Thomas Burke

There were two or three buckeens in the hall, and Darby and one of the down-at-heel serving-boys were laying the evening meal.
Extract from : « The Wild Geese » by Stanley John Weyman

Nothing swept and garnished; nothing evincing one grain of past or present reverence—a down-at-heel indifferent idolatry.
Extract from : « The Spirit of Rome » by Vernon Lee

She looked complacently down at her stubby little feet in their down-at-heel beaded slippers.
Extract from : « Olive in Italy » by Moray Dalton

Her bedroom slippers were still so new and pretty that it was impossible to picture them down-at-heel.
Extract from : « Married » by August Strindberg

In the house he wore slippers, which seemed always old and down-at-heel.
Extract from : « Hawthorne and His Circle » by Julian Hawthorne

Seedy and down-at-heel, they lounge about the cafés and hotels frequented by English travellers.
Extract from : « The Sign of Silence » by William Le Queux

Most of these haciendas, at any rate those deep in the country, have a very shabby and down-at-heel appearance.
Extract from : « The American Egypt » by Channing Arnold

At that moment entered Félicien Garbure, a down-at-heel elderly man, who had been wont to sit at Paragot's table.
Extract from : « The Belovd Vagabond » by William J. Locke

Synonyms for down-at-heel

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