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shabbiness::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | manginess, seediness, sleaziness |
| Type of | inelegance |
| Has types | raggedness |
| Derivation | shabby |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | iniquity, injustice, unfairness |
| Type of | actus reus, misconduct, wrongdoing, wrongful conduct |
| Derivation | shabby |
Examples of shabbiness
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What is apparent everywhere here is the noble shabbiness of industrial decline.
From the nytimes.com
Doral has lost much of its luster over the years, its elegance waning into shabbiness.
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What impressed me was its modesty, its homeliness, even its shabbiness here and there.
From the time.com
Still, the shabbiness of his Birmingham show did McKnight and the audience a disservice.
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Street-corner lawns that had been stomped into shabbiness flourish again.
From the time.com
He plays fair and never invents quotes or deals in the shabbiness of composite characters.
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Over the years, the resort has lost much of its luster, its elegance waning into shabbiness.
From the forbes.com
More important are streets in poor condition and the general shabbiness of much in Glendale.
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In the 1950s the area began to slide into a comfortable shabbiness.
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- A lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing
- Injustice: an unjust act
- (shabbily) so as to appear worn and threadbare or dilapidated; "a shabbily dressed man"
- (shabbily) in a mean and ungenerous manner; "the two were haggling shabbily in the drawing-room"
- The property of being shabby
