Antonyms for shabby
ˈʃæb ishab·by

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1. shabby

   Synonyms:
   ragged, threadbare, contemptible, beggarly, paltry

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1. moth-eaten, ratty, shabby, tattyadjective

   showing signs of wear and tear

   "a ratty old overcoat"; "shabby furniture"; "an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains"

   Antonyms:
   honourable, honorable, new

   Synonyms:
   flashy, moth-eaten, ratty, gimcrack, meretricious, tacky, dusty, trashy, loud, garish, brassy, cheap, cold, mothy, tawdry, flash, tatty, stale, gaudy

2. shabbyadjective

   mean and unworthy and despicable

   "shabby treatment"

   Antonyms:
   honourable, new, honorable

   Synonyms:
   ratty, moth-eaten, tatty

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1. shabbyadjective

   Synonyms:
   seedy, threadbare, tacky , mean, despicable, scurvy, contemptible

How to use shabby in a sentence?

1. Albert Einstein:

   If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.

2. Willa Cather, My Antonia:

   Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

3. W. H. Auden:

   When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

4. Jean Baudrillard:

   The local is a shabby thing. There's nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corner, our own territory, the radiant promiscuity of the face to face. A culture which has taken the risk of the universal, must perish by the universal.

5. Willa Cather:

   Winter lies too long in country towns hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

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