Dilapidations

And who does not exactly comprehend the kind of intercourse between Mrs. Norris and Dr. Grant which "had begun in dilapidations"? ❋ Unknown (1901)

But, in the Green Book, "dilapidations" is supposed to mean decay that occurs during occupancy, not renovation of a crappy flat in a way whereby the MP pockets the capital gains. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For while many of us may have grown up in vicarages where there seemed to be no money, and while we too heard talk of "dilapidations," the diocesan funds required for the repair of our homes, or were sometimes spoken of in the north of England as "nesh" if we seemed to require more cosseting than a young person should, rather fewer of us experienced the kind of squalor that Sage evokes. ❋ Fenton, James (2002)

The turbid chaos of your mind threw up some memory of the word "dilapidations" which you have pitifully attempted to disguise under the synonym of "ruins."' ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

It could be a matter of taste, but this counts as 'dilapidations' in my book! " ❋ Unknown (2009)

At the end of the lease £300 was retained to cover cleaning and dilapidations. ❋ Rupert Jones (2010)

And certainly his redoubtable presence had afforded the city a measure of protection, but for all that there were some scars and dilapidations to be seen along the streets, and an occasional raw-edged gap where a house had been stripped down to its foundations and not yet replaced. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Faced with his dilapidations, has he tossed them aside, or found a new key to his spiritual center, and decided to come alive? ❋ Unknown (2008)

Miss Honeyman and Hannah will talk about his dilapidations for years after the little chap has left them. ❋ Unknown (2006)

First they got this Berliner architect--his buildings look like some of the homes in the Ninth Ward in New Orleans after Katrina hit them and piled them up like so much trash--his buildings I call "constructed dilapidations." ❋ The Daily Growler (2006)

Mrs Wilfer, washing her hands of the Boffins, went to bed after the manner of Lady Macbeth; and R.W. was left alone among the dilapidations of the supper table, in a melancholy attitude. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Dr. Grant and Mrs. Norris were seldom good friends; their acquaintance had begun in dilapidations, and their habits were totally dissimilar. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Heathcote still made wonderful journeys in them, taking care generally that the wheels were sound, and using ropes for the repair of dilapidations. ❋ Unknown (2004)

It should, however, I think, be stipulated that he should paint inside every seven years, and outside every three years, and be subject to dilapidations, in the event of vacating, either by death or otherwise. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Mrs. Proudie, though she had contrived to lend her assistance in recapitulating the palatial dilapidations, had not on that account given up her hold of Mr. Harding, nor ceased from her cross-examinations as to the iniquity of Sabbatical amusements. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The tithes, which are never required in kind, are divided into three parts — one to the king, another to the incumbent, and the third to repair the dilapidations of the parsonage. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Some of these dilapidations are said to be found in islands now uninhabited; but I doubt whether we can thence infer that they were ever peopled. ❋ Unknown (2003)

He finds the language in which he has embarked his fame gradually altering, and subject to the dilapidations of time and the caprice of fashion. ❋ Unknown (2002)

The engineers are trying to [determine] how to remove the dilapidated [apartment] [complex]. ❋ Anonymous (2003)

"My dealer lives in a [dilapidated] old [hosue]" "ew you hooked up with [carissa]??! That bitch's pussy is dilapidated" ❋ Dilapidatedpussy (2009)

I had [high expectations] when crawling into bed with [Xavier], but [alas], he was dilapidated. ❋ C. Von Epling (2010)

As he pressed the buttons of his ([all purpose]) remote for [the 1],000,000 time while sitting on his 20 year old sofa and watch the same re-rans again and again with no care or purpose other than to kill the same time he has been killing for the last [millennium], it was evident to all of us this was another tragic case of dilapidated hypomnesia. ❋ Babyz7z7 (2011)

“Bro you seen [Violet], I she got [dilapidated pussy] last [nigh]” ❋ FuckedInTheAss420 (2021)