shabby

IPA: ʃˈæbi

adjective

(of clothing) Torn or worn; unkempt.
(of a person) Wearing ragged, very worn, or dirty clothing.
Mean; despicable.
Poor; showing little effort or talent.

Examples of "shabby" in Sentences

At the moment it is a bit shabby.
He catcalled upon the shabby show.
The building is a bit old and shabby.
His attire is somewhat threadbare and shabby.
However the interior is shabby and unpleasant.
Jo is living alone in the same old shabby flat.
The argument is shabby and the thinking is shambolic.
Anything less makes the article look shabby and unreadable.
They were mostly short, hangdog-cheerful men in shabby suits.
The legal issue is that Shabby Chic is a trademark of the company.
I've lived in shabby and I have lived in chic and I was equally happy in both.
I did my best to do a neat job but it was still ... umm ... let's call it shabby chic.
Something that did not say "I slum around in shabby robes your grandmother might have made from the curtains."
It is not the shabby coat that will make the gentleman look shabby, no more than the fine coat can ever make _the shabby_ look like the gentleman.
Shed slept in shabby pensions, practicing a frugality that was foreign to her at this stage of her life, buying nothing but variations of the same postcards her father sent now.
Certainly not all of our poor kids, but many, do indeed live in shabby apartments where books are considered unaffordable, but life revolves around an ever-flickering large-screen TV.
I would simply suggest that as a work of art it has been able to do this precisely because it has "style," avoids sentimentality and predictability, and doesn't manipulate "our emotions" in shabby and shallow ways.
Then two more old men in shabby suits, a gangsta in a wifebeater shirt swearing in Spanish, an Indian couple with three bawling children, a tall black man in a Sonics T-shirt, then a pretty young woman with a tangle of blond hair,

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