disrepair• Half of its vehicles were in disrepair without replacement parts.• Many of the apartment buildings fell into disrepair from the 1950s on, some so badly that the city demolished them.• But it fell into disrepair earlier this century when the water dried up.• There was no evidence, however, that older material was necessarily in a greater state of disrepair than more modernpublications.• I do not know which was the one whose state of disrepairforced the closure.• It loomed over the Angara River like a great rectangulartombstone, moldering toward oblivion in stunningdisrepair.• She had heard enough from the Julians to recognise in the disrepair something of the troubles of the Dersinghams.
in a state of disrepair• Our nation's schools are in a sorry state of disrepair.• Most of them were in states of disrepair.