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shabbiness

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shab·by  (shb)
adj. shab·bi·er, shab·bi·est
1.
a. Showing signs of wear and tear; threadbare or worn-out: shabby furniture.
b. Dilapidated or deteriorated in condition, especially through neglect; seedy: a shabby little park.
2. Wearing threadbare clothing.
3.
a. Despicable; mean: a shabby trick.
b. Not generous or just; unfair: shabby treatment.
c. Of mediocre or substandard quality: a shabby performance.

[From obsolete shab, scab, from Middle English schab, from Old English sceabb.]

shabbi·ly adv.
shabbi·ness n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.shabbiness - a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing
inelegance - the quality of lacking refinement and good taste
raggedness - shabbiness by virtue of being in rags
2.shabbinessshabbiness - an unjust act                        
actus reus, wrongful conduct, misconduct, wrongdoing - activity that transgresses moral or civil law; "he denied any wrongdoing"
Translations
shabbiness [ˈʃæbɪnɪs] N
1. [of dress, person] → desaliño m, pobreza f
2. [of treatment] → injusticia f, vileza f
shabbiness
n (lit, fig)Schäbigkeit f
shabbiness [ˈʃæbɪnɪs] n (of dress, person) → trasandatezza; (of building) → squallore m; (of treatment) → meschinità
shabbiness [ˈʃæbɪnɪs] n (of dress, person) → trasandatezza; (of building) → squallore m; (of treatment) → meschinità


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Their gray uniforms were worn beyond the point of shabbiness.
He can let his hotel run down to the last degree of shabbiness and yet have it full of people all the time.
She gathered up her baby once more; but when her eye fell upon its miserably short little gray tow-linen shirt and noted the contrast between its pauper shabbiness and her own volcanic eruption of infernal splendors, her mother-heart was touched, and she was ashamed.
 
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