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shabby
[ shab-ee ]
adjective
- impaired by wear, use, etc.; worn:
shabby clothes.
- showing conspicuous signs of wear or neglect:
The rooms on the upper floors of the mansion had a rather shabby appearance, as if they had not been much in use of late.
- wearing worn clothes or having a slovenly or unkempt appearance:
a shabby person.
- run-down, seedy, or dilapidated:
a shabby hotel.
- meanly ungenerous or unfair; contemptible, as persons, actions, etc.:
shabby behavior.
- inferior; not up to par in quality, performance, etc.:
a shabby rendition of the sonata.
shabby
/ ˈʃæbɪ /
adjective
- threadbare or dilapidated in appearance
- wearing worn and dirty clothes; seedy
- mean, despicable, or unworthy
shabby treatment
- dirty or squalid
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Derived Forms
- ˈshabbiness, noun
- ˈshabbily, adverb
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Other Words From
- shabbi·ly adverb
- shabbi·ness noun
- un·shabbi·ly adverb
- un·shabby adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of shabby1
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Example Sentences
It was written in 1940 by Woody Guthrie, allegedly in a shabby hotel room just outside of Times Square—not on the 6, but close enough.
A friend sees Etta in a bookstore, in her shabby daily costume — a “wrinkled old evening gown” and sneakers.
More and more often, I settle into a shabby, cat-clawed wing chair with the day’s newspapers and periodically snort “Harrumph!”
Ever since I encountered the stunning Tepotztli tools, I’ve been side-eying my shabby cocktail set, quietly suppressing the urge to throw my old tools in the trash and order my dream set.
Neither is too shabby, considering how porous some other, more experienced clubs have been.
We met on the third floor of a shabby building in Asadabad in an impossibly spare room that we dragged cushions into.
Graterford is a forbidding, shabby, woebegone facility built in 1929.
It was such a lovely, shabby, many deco building town and completely unexploited.
Are all these setups, coincidences, misunderstandings, a shabby mass tabloid conspiracy, people on the make?
Not too shabby for a creature less than a year old who had never set a tentacle on the pitch.
The English have too much pride to be tricky or shabby, even in the essentially corrupting relation of buyer and seller.
The farmer stooped down, and raised the shabby bonnet from the face of the woman to examine her more carefully.
He turned into an alley, down which, nautically speaking, he rolled into a shabby little court.
She still wore the shabby lace and the artificial bunch of violets on the side of her head.
I am sure there is nothing lower, or more mean and shabby, than getting places and praise a fellow does not deserve.
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