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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

... note, pulled the prince out of the well, gave him his shabby clothes, and put on the prince's rich dress. Then having changed armor and ...

— Stories to Read or Tell from Fairy Tales and Folklore • Laure Claire Foucher

... boy of fourteen, stood in front of the shabby brick building, on Nassau street, which has served for many years as the New York post office. In front of him, as he stood with his back to the building, was a small basket, filled with ordinary letter envelopes, each ...

— Paul the Peddler - The Fortunes of a Young Street Merchant • Horatio Alger, Jr.

... expected her to return in a shabby, or even needy, condition, and now they had stories of delightful weeks at a hotel in San Francisco, and beheld their poor shipwrecked neighbor dressed more handsomely than they had ever seen her, and with a new trunk standing in the lower hall ...

— The Adventures of Captain Horn • Frank Richard Stockton

... speaks of "factitious altruism"; with this "altruism of the Procrusteans" who would reduce every one to the simple life-she has "little patience." "Thousands of people seem to be infected with the idea that by doing more themselves they bestow leisure on others; that by wearing shabby clothes they somehow make it possible for others to dress better- though they thus admit tacitly that leisure and elegance are not evil things. Or perhaps-though Heaven forbid they should be right!-they merely think that by refusing nightingales' tongues ...

— Problems of Conduct • Durant Drake

... in Lincoln's Inn Fields, nigh to the Duke's Theatre and the Portugal ambassador's chapel. Tom Esmond, who had frequented the one as long as he had money to spend among the actresses, now came to the church as assiduously. He looked so lean and shabby, that he passed without difficulty for a repentant sinner; and so, becoming converted, you may be sure took his uncle's ...

— Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges • William Makepeace Thackeray

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