adjective
definition
In disrepair; poorly maintained
example
They lived in a tumbledown shack on the edge of the woods.
Examples of tumbledown in a Sentence
Often a noise has come from the side of some tumbledown building.
A little orphan girl lives with her cruel aunt in a rambling, tumbledown house.
He dwelt in a humble tumbledown cottage in Bovey Tracey, to be exact in Church Street.
He lay fast asleep in the shelter of a tumbledown building buried beneath a massive and almost impenetrable thicket of thorns.
Our favourite walk was to Keller's Landing, an old tumbledown lumber-wharf on the Tennessee River, used during the Civil War to land soldiers.
In fact, it looked a bit like a crumbling, tumbledown barn.
The original field divisions can still be seen in many places as tumbledown walls of broken limestone.