Shabby
['ʃæbɪ] or [ˈʃæbi]
Definition
(n.) Torn or worn to rage; poor; mean; ragged.
(n.) Clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments.
(n.) Mean; paltry; despicable; as, shabby treatment.
Checker: Stella
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Ragged, worn, faded, threadbare, worn out.[2]. Mean, base, low, vile, grovelling, despicable, contemptible, beggarly, paltry, pitiful, dirty, scurvy, abject, disgraceful, unhandsome, ungentlemanly.
Editor: Ned
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Ragged, threadbare, contemptible, beggarly, paltry,[See FIRM]
Edited by Alta
Definition
adj. threadbare or worn as clothes: having a look of poverty: mean in look or conduct: low: paltry.—adv. Shabb′ily.—n. Shabb′iness.—adj. Shabb′y-genteel′ keeping up or affecting an appearance of gentility though really shabby.
Edited by Janet
Examples
- Your book-case, Marian--your dear-little-shabby-old-satin-wood book-case--how glad I am you brought it with you from Limmeridge! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- We scrambled up the steep bank at the shabby town of Ghizeh, mounted the donkeys again, and scampered away. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They seem for the most part shabby in attire, dingy of linen, lovers of billiards and brandy, and cigars and greasy ordinaries. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I was not afraid of the shabby coat, and had no yearnings after gallant greys. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- His clothing was worn down to the rusty hue of the hat in the entry, but though he looked shabby he did not look mean. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Going up into the hall, there I found the Colonel, wasted, and worn, and old, and shabby, and as wild and as wicked as ever. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- That course, for the moment, led merely to Miss Bart's boarding-house; but its shabby door-step had suddenly become the threshold of the untried. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I am sure he will put you up to a plan of making that vile, shabby, selfish Duke of Beaufort treat you better. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Shabby doings of any description were not endured under his sanction. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Any literary scrub, or shabby, whining artist. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- So out came the tarlatan, looking older, limper, and shabbier than ever beside Sallie's crisp new one. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- No, indeedyou shall be indifferent to me, as the shabbiest bouquet in your pyramid. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The lot that your Casby belongs to, is the shabbiest of all the lots. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The shabbiest desk of all the desks? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Edited by Eva