Shabbiness

Examples

• Look at a boy like Ned Silverton--he's really too good to be used to refurbish anybody's social shabbiness. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• It seemed as though the prison's poverty, and shabbiness, and dirt, were growing in the sultry atmosphere. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• But when his boyish figure bobbed away, its shabbiness and cheerful patience smote the tears out of her eyes. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The Captain himself was in the last extremity of shabbiness, with large whiskers, and an old, old brown great-coat with no other coat below it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The shabbiness of these attendants upon shabbiness, the poverty of these insolvent waiters upon insolvency, was a sight to see. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.

Edited by Angelina