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Webster 1913 Edition
Shabby
1.
Torn or worn to rage; poor; mean; ragged.
Wearing
shabby
coats and dirty shirts. Macaulay.
2.
Clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments.
“The dean was so shabby.” Swift.
3.
Mean; paltry; despicable;
“Very shabby fellows.” as,
. shabby
treatmentClarendon.
Webster 1828 Edition
Shabby
SHAB'BY
,Adj.
1. Ragged; torn or worn to rags; as a shabby coat; shabby clothes.
2. Clothed with ragged garments.
The dean was so shabby- Swift.
3. Mean; paltry; despicable; as a shabby fellow; shabby treatment. [For the idea expressed by shabby, there is not a better word in the language.]
Definition 2025
shabby
shabby
English
Adjective
shabby (comparative shabbier, superlative shabbiest)
- Torn or worn; poor; mean; ragged.
- 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, in The Affair at the Novelty Theatre:
- Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.
- They lived in a tiny apartment, with some old, shabby furniture.
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- Clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments.
- The fellow arrived looking rather shabby after journeying so far.
- Mean; paltry; despicable.
- shabby treatment
Derived terms
- shabby-genteel
Translations
torn or worn; poor; mean; ragged
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clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments
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mean; paltry; despicable