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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?
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.
I don't think you go on a vacation and disappear, and don't tell anybody, and cut your hair and dye your hair, and hide out in a shabby apartment in a resort town. ... They fought so hard to keep him out of trouble when he killed four innocent people drinking three times the legal limit of alcohol, there's no doubt in my mind that when the video came out that showed him at that party and he was facing a possible revocation of probation, they made a conscious decision to run, and they did.
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.
Winter lies too long in country towns hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
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.
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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