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Shabby

adjective

(compar. shabbier; superl. shabbiest)

Showing signs of wear and tear. Synonyms: moth-eaten, ratty, tatty. "Shabby furniture" , "An old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains"

Mean and unworthy and despicable.

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"Shabby" Quotes from Famous Books

... "A mighty shabby old customer," he said, "and I doubt if I could feel at home in his skin; but I'm willing to risk it for the sake of ...

— Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 • Various

... a minor key. But, indeed, every sigh is a waste of so much energy that I try to turn my stone towards the erection of the infinite temple without grieving that it was not long since built. I used to despise justice as a shabby virtue, but now it seems to me the only lack. We are unjust in our treatment and in our opinion of persons. In the first we are too sweet, in the last too severe. For we eternally measure men by a standard ...

— Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis • G. W. Curtis, ed. George Willis Cooke

... this simple society had its own social habits. If he did not take this well-meant advice, he must justify himself by his own method. He made up his mind to go to the next meeting of the medical society. His clothes were a trifle shabby, but as the meeting was in the evening, he could go in his evening dress—drop in casually, as it were, from an evening entertainment. That silly bit of pride, however, angered him with himself. He went in his ...

— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick

... mystery: How and where John got such a shabby lot, Such a shocking pair, I do declare Though he may know, I ...

— On the Tree Top • Clara Doty Bates

... dignity, not dignity aped. Betty read so much, and rapidly read what else she could see. She saw that the figure she was admiring was dressed but indifferently; the black silk had certainly seen its best days, if it was not exactly shabby; no ornaments whatever were worn with it. The fashion of garments at that day was, as I have remarked, very trying to any but a good figure, while it certainly showed such a one to advantage. Betty knew her own figure could ...

— A Red Wallflower • Susan Warner

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