Harapiento in english
Ragged
pronunciation: rægəd part of speech: adjective
pronunciation: rægəd part of speech: adjective
In gestures
harapiento = ragged ; shabby ; in tatters ; in rags ; out-at-(the)-elbows ; shabby-looking.
Example: Mr Imray had libraries in his metropolitan ragged schools where mendicant readers took pleasure in reading.Example: Behind the shabby desk was a rather shabby man, with a tired and indecisive face.Example: Saddam Hussein, the tyrant of Iraq, was pitiful when he was discovered in his hiding spot dirty, hungry and in tatters.Example: Children too exhausted even to wave the flies off their faces, and men and women in rags scrabbling in the dirt for grains of wheat.Example: His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out-at-the-elbows, the water passed through his shoes, -- and the stars through his soul.Example: A woman was walking down the street when she was accosted by a particularly dirty and shabby-looking homeless woman who asked her for a couple of dollars for dinner.