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shabby::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | moth-eaten, ratty, tatty |
| Derivation | shabbiness |
shabby furniture.
shabby::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Derivation | shabbiness |
shabby treatment.
Examples of shabby
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There are shabby-chic wooden picture frames, too, but Bulwer warns me off these.
From the telegraph.co.uk
In postwar Rome they were shabby repositories of art for the uplift of the soul.
From the theatlantic.com
He used to cook bangers, mash and Bisto gravy badly in a shabby room in Jericho.
From the thisisoxfordshire.co.uk
Amazon announced the Kindle 3 last night, and it doesn't look too shabby at all.
From the techcrunch.com
The tasting room is shabby-chic hip industrial, a good fit for the neighborhood.
From the sacbee.com
He also wore a huge, floppy overcoat long before shabby-chic became fashionable.
From the newsobserver.com
It can also get chipped, which is annoying unless you like the shabby-chic look.
From the expressandstar.com
A donation on Monday of enough filet mignon to feed 50 wasn't too shabby either.
From the sacbee.com
Annoyingly, it's stopped looking shabby and taken on a minimal-smart appearance.
From the guardian.co.uk
- Moth-eaten: showing signs of wear and tear; "a ratty old overcoat"; "shabby furniture"; "an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains"
- Mean and unworthy and despicable; "shabby treatment"
- (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 following is a list of housemates in the 2010 series of Big Brother.
- Torn or worn; poor; mean; ragged; Clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments; Mean; paltry; despicable
- Wormo out,in a poor condition
