Shabby

Word SHABBY
Character 6
Hyphenation shab by
Pronunciations /ˈʃæb.i/

Definitions and meanings of "Shabby"

What do we mean by shabby?

Showing signs of wear and tear; threadbare or worn-out. adjective

Dilapidated or deteriorated in condition, especially through neglect; seedy. adjective

Wearing threadbare clothing. adjective

Despicable; mean. adjective

Not generous or just; unfair. adjective

Of mediocre or substandard quality. adjective

Scabby; mangy.

Mean; base; scurvy.

Of mean appearance; noting clothes and other things which are much worn, or evidence poverty or decay, or persons wearing such clothes; seedy.

Torn or worn to rage; poor; mean; ragged. adjective

Clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments. adjective

Mean; paltry; despicable. adjective

Torn or worn; poor; mean; ragged. adjective

Clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments. adjective

Mean; paltry; despicable. adjective

Showing signs of wear and tear adjective

Mean and unworthy and despicable adjective

Torn or worn; unkempt.

Clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments.

Mean; paltry; despicable.

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The word "shabby" in example sentences

It is not the shabby coat that will make the gentleman look shabby, no more than the fine coat can ever make _the shabby_ look like the gentleman. ❋ Maria Edgeworth (1808)

I did my best to do a neat job but it was still ... umm ... let's call it shabby chic. ❋ Nupur (2007)

I would simply suggest that as a work of art it has been able to do this precisely because it has "style," avoids sentimentality and predictability, and doesn't manipulate "our emotions" in shabby and shallow ways. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Something that did not say "I slum around in shabby robes your grandmother might have made from the curtains." ❋ Mrissa (2010)

They were mostly short, hangdog-cheerful men in shabby suits. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She’d slept in shabby pensions, practicing a frugality that was foreign to her at this stage of her life, buying nothing but variations of the same postcards her father sent now. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Certainly not all of our poor kids, but many, do indeed live in shabby apartments where books are considered unaffordable, but life revolves around an ever-flickering large-screen TV. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I've lived in shabby and I have lived in chic and I was equally happy in both. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Then two more old men in shabby suits, a gangsta in a wifebeater shirt swearing in Spanish, an Indian couple with three bawling children, a tall black man in a Sonics T-shirt, then a pretty young woman with a tangle of blond hair, ❋ Unknown (2006)

Three hours after setting out, we pulled into Vladimir's suburbs, a wasteland of concrete apartment blocks standing in shabby dominion over ragged fields. ❋ Unknown (2005)

When they first meet, Alroy mistakes the “old man, in shabby robes, who was passing” ❋ Unknown (2002)

He dressed in shabby, genteel garb, suggesting a decent chap who'd come on hard times. ❋ Unknown (1984)

In the trucks little yellow men in shabby greenish uniforms were squatting, jammed close together. ❋ Unknown (1949)

Swarms of militiamen in shabby uniforms wandered up and down the streets, trying to keep warm. ❋ Unknown (1938)

At the end of the lane a few cavalrymen rode by in shabby blue, their horses 'flanks glinting like ripe chestnuts. ❋ Unknown (1915)

The men were dining at long trestle-tables under the trees; tired, unshaven men in shabby uniforms of all cuts and almost every colour. ❋ Unknown (1915)

Our few fellow-passengers were just about starting off in shabby cabs when we alighted. ❋ Unknown (1890)

It was pretty to see the new respect with which she treated his possessions now; the old books were dusted with a sort of reverence; scraps of paper were laid carefully by lest some immortal verse be lost; and a certain shabby velvet jacket fondly smoothed when no one was by to smile at the maternal pride with filled her heart and caused her once severe countenance to shine with unwonted benignity. ❋ Unknown (1876)

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