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Synonyms for shabby
ˈʃæb ishab·by
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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
shabby
Synonyms:
ragged, threadbare, contemptible, beggarly, paltry
Princeton's WordNet
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, gaudyAntonyms:
honourable, honorable, newshabbyadjective
mean and unworthy and despicable
"shabby treatment"
Synonyms:
ratty, moth-eaten, tattyAntonyms:
honourable, new, honorable
Dictionary of English Synonymes
shabbyadjective
Synonyms:
ragged, worn, faded, threadbare, worn outshabbyadjective
Synonyms:
mean, base, low, vile, grovelling, despicable, contemptible, beggarly, paltry, pitiful, dirty, scurvy, abject, disgraceful, unhandsome, ungentlemanly
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
shabbyadjective
Synonyms:
seedy, threadbare, tacky , mean, despicable, scurvy, contemptible
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#827 | cheap | |
#1174 | flash | |
#1986 | cold | |
#6888 | loud | |
#15965 | dusty | |
#20982 | trashy | |
#25249 | shabby | |
#25360 | stale | |
#27233 | ragged | |
#33469 | flashy | |
#38672 | tacky | |
#51821 | shoddy | |
#54808 | seedy | |
#57224 | paltry | |
#59182 | gaudy | |
#79242 | garish | |
#79400 | ratty | |
#79651 | contemptible | |
#85672 | tatty | |
#96968 | brassy | |
#100279 | threadbare | |
#100861 | tawdry | |
#149613 | beggarly | |
#209600 | meretricious |
How to use shabby in a sentence?
If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.
They are destroying it, they are cheapening it, they're making it shabby.
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.
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.
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.
Translations for shabby
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- ošuntělýCzech
- schäbigGerman
- zarrapastroso, raídoSpanish
- nuhruinen, nuhjuinen, surkea, nukkavieru, onnetonFinnish
- élimé, râpé, miteux, usé, minableFrench
- जर्जरHindi
- lusuhIndonesian
- 手のひら, ぼろぼろJapanese
- schappegLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- taretare, kanukanu, pūtaitaiMāori
- haveloosDutch
- tosco, gasto, esfarrapado, esbodegado, estropiadoPortuguese
- плюгавый, захудалый, подлый, обветшалый, ветхий, жалкий, потрёпанный, убогий, запущенный, потёртый, поношенныйRussian
- отрцан, похабан, otrcan, olinjao, pohaban, олињаоSerbo-Croatian
- sjaskig, sjavig, sjabbig, luggslitenSwedish
- tồi tànVietnamese
- אָפּגעלאָזןYiddish
- 破旧Chinese
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