impaired by wear, use, etc.; worn: shabby clothes.
showing conspicuous signs of wear or neglect: The rooms on the upper floors of the mansion had a rather shabby appearance, as if they had not been much in use of late.
wearing worn clothes or having a slovenly or unkempt appearance: a shabby person.
run-down, seedy, or dilapidated: a shabby hotel.
meanly ungenerous or unfair; contemptible, as persons, actions, etc.: shabby behavior.
inferior; not up to par in quality, performance, etc.: a shabby rendition of the sonata.
Origin of shabby
1660–70; shab (Middle English; Old English sceabbscab) + -y1; cognate with German schäbig
Neither is too shabby, considering how porous some other, more experienced clubs have been.
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We met on the third floor of a shabby building in Asadabad in an impossibly spare room that we dragged cushions into.
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Graterford is a forbidding, shabby, woebegone facility built in 1929.
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It was such a lovely, shabby, many deco building town and completely unexploited.
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Are all these setups, coincidences, misunderstandings, a shabby mass tabloid conspiracy, people on the make?
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Not too shabby for a creature less than a year old who had never set a tentacle on the pitch.
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By the shabby gateway of the house I halted and looked up at such of the windows as I could see over the wall.
The Vanishing Man|R. Austin Freeman
On observing this, Bill Tasker said he supposed it was to hide the shabby jackets they wore under them.
Peter the Whaler|W.H.G. Kingston
"But it is so shabby," she said, looking fearfully at Caroline.
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To endow two rained-on and shabby gentlemen with pomp and circumstance!
The Tin Soldier|Temple Bailey
Again the ball went sailing in, but this time Joes luck played him a shabby trick, or perhaps the umpire was not watching closely.
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