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ˈʃæb ishab·by

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  1. shabby

    Synonyms:
    ragged, threadbare, contemptible, beggarly, paltry

Princeton's WordNet2.0 / 2 votes

  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"

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

    Antonyms:
    honourable, honorable, new

  2. shabbyadjective

    mean and unworthy and despicable

    "shabby treatment"

    Synonyms:
    ratty, moth-eaten, tatty

    Antonyms:
    honourable, new, honorable

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. shabbyadjective

    Synonyms:
    ragged, worn, faded, threadbare, worn out

  2. shabbyadjective

    Synonyms:
    mean, base, low, vile, grovelling, despicable, contemptible, beggarly, paltry, pitiful, dirty, scurvy, abject, disgraceful, unhandsome, ungentlemanly

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  1. shabbyadjective

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

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "shabby":

    seedy, shoddy

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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. Thomas Markle:

    They are destroying it, they are cheapening it, they're making it shabby.

  3. Sinclair Lewis:

    In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

  4. Gavin Williamson:

    With the Met Police not willing to do a criminal investigation it is clear a proper, full and impartial investigation needs to be conducted on this shabby and discredited witch hunt.

  5. 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.


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