shabby English

Meaning shabby meaning

What does shabby mean?

shabby

— adjective (= ratty, tatty) showing signs of wear and tear a ratty old overcoat shabby furniture an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains

— adjective mean and unworthy and despicable shabby treatment

Synonyms shabby synonyms

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shabby English » English

seedy

ragged

dilapidated

mean

worn-out

threadbare

shoddy

poor

worn

tatty

tattered

slovenly

frayed

wretched

vulgar

tumbledown

scruffy

ratty

ramshackle

mangy

cheap

worn out

vile

tacky

squalid

run-down

ruined

rickety

miserable

ignoble

humble

dreary

dowdy

destroyed

despicable

damaged

broken

base

untidy

unclean

sordid

sloppy

sleazy

scurvy

pitiful

pitiable

old

moth-eaten

low

hangdog

Topics shabby topics

What do people use shabby to talk about?

Daily life

Clothing

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Examples shabby examples

How do I use shabby in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The room was empty except for a shabby bed.

The hotel room where we stayed was shabby.

My car looks shabby in comparison with his new one.

Tom repainted his mailbox because it was looking shabby.

Tom's clothes were shabby.

Movie subtitles

It was the first time I noticed that his trousers were shabby.

But when a girl gets too shabby.

I've heard he closed his shabby practice in the suburb.

And then Christopher evidently did something pretty shabby.

I couldn't. I couldn't face being cooped up for the rest of my life in a shabby little office.

And we're helping him get those things in our shabby little office.

Shabby jobs for who'd ever hire me.

A rather shabby building on a rather shabby street.

Cheap and shabby.

I didn't think a general could be so shabby.

What a shabby device!

Well, the man gave me a funny look because I did look a bit shabby.

That would be so shabby.

Folks, do you have shabby teeth?

Maybe it was the sooty mist hanging over the shabby streets that hid them from you. as you marched with the daily swarm of other men up the hill to Wilson's colliery.

Your dingy, gloomy office in that dingy, dirty street, the rotten smell from the factory chimneys pressing down on the shabby little houses?

Tired of patients, tired of my work, tired of this shabby neighborhood.

I couldn't face being cooped up for the rest of my life in a shabby little office.

How dare this shabby character!

Quite shabby pub.

Icannotremembermuch of that shabby little scene, except for some cheap heroics on my part.

Just a bit shabby.

What have we got here? Not too shabby.

It's a shabby, vindictive gesture.

I don't think I'm too shabby compared to Asai.

Mr Mori. I shouldn't ask, but. I look shabby, so your guards don't admit me.

She's just shabby-genteel.

To think I came from the capital to live among rags and shabby fabric.

What have we got here? Not too shabby. Wait.

We went in for fun and I started asking for folders. Well, the man gave me a funny look because I did look a bit shabby.

A pair of shabby man's shoes.

There! 200 miles in 56 minutes Not too shabby.

Not too shabby.

News and current affairs

Hotels in China's provincial cities can make five-star hotels in Western capitals looked shabby.

But reliance on realpolitik as the guiding light of foreign policy has a pretty shabby track record.

The district is poor by any reckoning, with 100,000 people crammed into shabby corrugated iron and tarpaulin-covered huts along miles of dirt pathways and hillsides.