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Shabby-genteel   /ʃˈæbi-dʒɛntˈil/   Listen
Shabby-genteel

adjective
1.
Trying to maintain dignity and self respect despite shabbiness.





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"Shabby-genteel" Quotes from Famous Books



... under extraordinary pressure of circumstances. A ragged boy, established at the crossing, who had indeed rendered himself conspicuous by his endeavours to ferry Puckers over dry-shod, was accosted by a shabby-genteel and remarkably good-looking ...
— M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." • G.J. Whyte-Melville
... through which the cavalcade was passing was lined with shabby-genteel brownstone houses, with high stoops and haughty dark doors, and dressmakers' placards or doctors' cards in the windows. Carl was puzzled. The girls seemed rather too cheerful to belong in this decayed and gloomy block, which, in the days when horsehair furniture and ...
— The Trail of the Hawk - A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life • Sinclair Lewis
... green stripes, a horsehair sofa, a grate covered with cut paper, and a general perfume of brandy and cigars. There were some preparations for breakfast, but no one was in the room but a little girl, about seven years old, dressed in shabby-genteel mourning. ...
— The Heir of Redclyffe • Charlotte M. Yonge


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