shabby
About 1.59 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect; scruffy.
They lived in a tiny apartment, with some old, shabby furniture.
- adjective Of a person: wearing ragged or very worn, and often dirty, clothing.
The fellow arrived looking rather shabby after journeying so far.
- adjective Of a person, their behaviour, etc.: despicable, mean; also, not generous; stingy, tight-fisted.
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- adjective Of a person, their behaviour, etc.: despicable, mean; also, not generous; stingy, tight-fisted.
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- adjective Poor in quality; also, showing little effort or talent.
His painting is not too shabby.
- adjective Of the pulse: thready, weak.
- adjective Of weather: wet and dreary.
- adjective Chiefly of sheep: affected by shab or scab (“a skin disease”); scabby.
Similar words
worn dishonorable dishonourable ratty tatty moth-eaten ragtag seedy crummy dilapidated
Often followed by
and little clothes old treatment in room black coat
Word family
shabbier shabbiest shabbily shabbiness shabbinesses
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