down-and-out



bankrupt, blasted, blighted, broken, desolated, destitute, destroyed, devastated, done for, done in, fallen, finished, gone to pot, homeless, in ruins,









   not worthwhile - cheap, good-for-nothing, junk, nugatory, shabby, shoddy, trashy, trivial, valueless, worthless ,

   blue story - fun, gag, howler, jape, jest, joke, laugh, panic, play, point, riot, scream, sport, story, wheeze,

   taking a role - acting, buffoonery, business, characterization, gag, ham, impersonation, mimicry, miming, mummery, patter, performance, performing, play-acting, playing,

   verity - absolute credibility, actuality, credibility, eternal verities, fact, good sooth, gospel, historical truth, historicity, reality, sooth, the true, trueness, truism, truth,

   yielded - abandoned, forfeit, forgone, forsworn, released, relinquished, renounced, sacrificial, waived ,

   lengthened - dragged out, drawn, drawn out, drawn-out, elongated, extended, interminable, languishing, lasting, lingering, long, long-continuing, long-drawn, long-drawn-out, long-pending,

   plank - adhesive tape, band, bandage, batten, beam, belt, billet, board, boarding, brick, cast, cellophane tape, chuck, clap, clap board,

   kindly - Christian, Christlike, accommodating, affable, affably, affectionate, agreeable, agreeably, amiable, amiably, amicable, amicably, ardently, attentive, beneficent,

   heartening - animating, assurance, assuring, cheerful, cheering, cheery, comforting, condoling, consolatory, consoling, emboldening, encouragement, encouraging, enlivening, exhilarating,

   defector - apostate, backslider, bolter, collaborationist, collaborator, convert, deserter, fifth columnist, proselyte, quisling, rat, recidivist, recreant, renegade, schismatic,