shabby

Speech parts

1. shabby - Noun

2. shabby - Adjective

3. shabby - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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

Clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments.

Mean; paltry; despicable; as, shabby treatment.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

tatty ratty moth-eaten dowdy threepenny pokey mangy tinny low base rotten motley scrubby crummy slipshod
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Antonyms

royal supreme galilee brand-new palatine laver
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Phrases with the word

be shabby not too shabby shabby-chic?

Derivatives

shabbier shabbiest

Examples

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes. W. H. Auden

If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies. Albert Einstein

At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion. F. Scott Fitzgerald

Under a shabby cloak may be a smart drinker. Portuguese Proverb

There's many a good man to be found under a shabby hat. Chinese Proverb

There is often wisdom under a shabby coat. Latin Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Shabbos elevator shabbos gentile shabbos goy shabby chic shabby-genteel shabbyish