Shabbiness

When he did call the shabbiness of the house and the manifest poverty of the family rather disgusted him, but somehow Jennie seemed as sweet to him as ever. ❋ Unknown (2004)

(generally) behaving very ill on this question, and their shabbiness is the more striking because the Government have behaved so well. ❋ Charles Greville (1829)

But that was more of an indictment of the general kind of shabbiness of the campaign, its disorganization, its vacuum of leadership at the top, which is probably the -- you know, a funny part of my book more than -- more than, you know, anything aimed to -- at, you know, taking on anyone, living or dead. ❋ Unknown (2001)

As the century waned, even the most ardent New Yorkers looked around and saw a kind of shabbiness at the heart of their town. ❋ Holland, Barbara (1999)

So "shabbiness" due to lack of funds, and "cool" due to the success of rap and hip-hop. ❋ Unknown (2008)

They do look a mess the minute you sit on them but I care more about the feel than the shabbiness. ❋ Rita Konig (2012)

Maybe they remember the transportation mess and commercial shabbiness at Atlanta. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Ferdinand Lassalle dressed with elegance for his working-men audiences, with the hope, he said, of reminding them that there was something better than their shabbiness. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His scruffiness added to his allure – my Dad used to maintain he would roll around in the goal area before kick-off, purely so he could attain an appropriate level of physical shabbiness. ❋ Unknown (2012)

The shabbiness extended to the upper floors, but Jane was relieved to discover that she had a room of her own. ❋ Jennet Conant (2011)

During my visit, the city was drenched in seasonal rains, but it bathes year-round in a deep-set shabbiness. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His futures are (often grimly) plausible, evoking a mid-late 21st Century of general shabbiness and overcrowding. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Facing Central Park, The Oak Bar under previous owners suffered from the addition of a big TV with sports blaring all day, and fell into a genteel shabbiness. ❋ Andrew Harper (2010)

If you live a life of shabby gentility for too long, the shabbiness overwhelms gentility and your downward mobility becomes permanent. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The show, a sendup of the vicissitudes of young adulthood in the form of a "Sesame Street" parody, revels to a certain degree in shabbiness and the erratic fortunes of the post-collegiate set. ❋ Unknown (2010)

[not too shabby] shabby! ❋ Master B (2003)

EXAMPLE 1 person 1:that table is old, like an [antique] person 2:yes it's quite shabby EXAMPLE 2 person 1; person 2 you are [not too shabby](meaning you are [not too bad]) person 2: that shall be our word and we will make it cool, shabby ❋ Zoe M H (2008)

this [tune's] shabby [rudeboy] ❋ Liberty (2003)

[OMFG] [Shabbie] is so cute!! They should [collab] more often. ❋ Slytherin_Life (2017)

That was a shabby [scooter poop], I mean [the poop] didn't even cover [the ass] ❋ Andyfellovernet (2003)

that [fone] is shabby [blud] ❋ Paki Turk (2003)

[Trouble] is a shabby [t.v] [channel] ❋ XXx Gyal (2005)

You [shouldnae] uv [chored] that wee boys [dinner money], that was pure shabby man ❋ Landofnor (2010)

i wouldn't [call] that [a cigarette], its [more like] what one would call a shabby. ❋ AnK86 (2008)

it [means] [ur] a [TRAMP] ❋ Breadbin (2003)