Shabby

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Shabby \Shab"by\, a. [Compar. {Shabbier}; superl. {Shabbiest}.]
     [See {Shab}, n., {Scabby}, and {Scab}.]
     1. Torn or worn to rage; poor; mean; ragged.
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              Wearing shabby coats and dirty shirts. --Macaulay.


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     2. Clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments. "The
        dean was so shabby." --Swift.
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     3. Mean; paltry; despicable; as, shabby treatment. "Very
        shabby fellows." --Clarendon.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  shabby
       adj 1: showing signs of wear and tear; "a ratty old overcoat";
              "shabby furniture"; "an old house with dirty windows
              and tatty curtains" [syn: {moth-eaten}, {ratty}, {tatty}]
       2: mean and unworthy and despicable; "shabby treatment"
       [also: {shabbiest}, {shabbier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  283 Moby Thesaurus words for "shabby":
     Mickey Mouse, NG, abandoned, abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious,
     awful, bare, base, battered, beastly, beat-up, bedraggled,
     beggarly, beneath contempt, blameworthy, blowzy, broken-down,
     brutal, budget, careless, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, coarse, common,
     contemptible, contemptuous, crummy, debased, decaying, decrepit,
     deficient, degraded, demeaning, deplorable, depraved, desolate,
     despicable, deteriorated, deteriorating, detestable, dilapidated,
     dingy, dire, dirty, disagreeable, discreditable, disfigured,
     disgraceful, disgusting, dishonorable, disreputable, dog-eared,
     dowdy, down-at-heel, down-at-the-heels, drabbletailed, draggled,
     draggletailed, dreadful, easy, economic, economy, egregious,
     enormous, execrable, faded, fetid, filthy, flagrant, foul,
     fourth-class, frayed, frazzled, frowzy, frugal, frumpish, frumpy,
     full of holes, fulsome, gaudy, gimcracky, good-for-naught,
     good-for-nothing, grave, grievous, gross, grubby, grudging, grungy,
     hateful, heinous, holey, horrible, horrid, ignoble, ignominious,
     imperfect, impolite, in rags, in shreds, in tatters, inadequate,
     incompetent, inexpensive, infamous, inferior, informal, inglorious,
     insufficient, irregular, junk, junky, lamentable, little,
     loathsome, loose, lousy, low, low-class, low-down, low-grade,
     low-priced, low-quality, low-test, lowly, lumpen, maladroit,
     manageable, mangy, mean, mean-spirited, measly, mediocre,
     meretricious, messy, mingy, miserable, moderate, modest, monstrous,
     moth-eaten, mussy, nasty, nefarious, neglected, negligent, niggard,
     niggardly, no-account, no-good, noisome, nominal, not comparable,
     not in it, not worth having, not worth mentioning, not worthwhile,
     notorious, nugacious, nugatory, obnoxious, odious, offensive,
     opprobrious, out of it, outrageous, outworn, paltry, patchy,
     pathetic, penurious, peremptory, petty, pinchpenny, pitiable,
     pitiful, poky, poor, poverty-stricken, punk, ragged, raggedy,
     ramshackle, rank, ratty, reasonable, regrettable, reprehensible,
     reptilian, repulsive, rickety, rotten, rubbishy, rude, ruined,
     ruinous, run-down, sad, scabby, scandalous, schlock, scraggly,
     scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, second-best,
     second-class, seedy, sensible, shady, shameful, shattered,
     shocking, shoddy, slack, slatternly, sleazy, slipshod, sloppy,
     slovenly, slumlike, slummy, sluttish, small, sordid, sorry,
     squalid, stingy, tacky, tattered, tatty, terrible, third-class,
     third-rate, threadbare, tinny, tired, token, too bad, torn, trashy,
     trivial, trumpery, tumbledown, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny,
     twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, unclean, uncouth, unexpensive,
     unfriendly, ungenerous, ungentlemanly, unhelpful, unkempt,
     unladylike, unmentionable, unneat, unpleasant, unrespectable,
     unsightly, unskillful, untidy, unworthy, valueless, vile,
     villainous, within means, woeful, worn, worn out, worn-out, worst,
     worth the money, worthless, wrecked, wretched