| 单词 | shabby |
| 释义 | shab·by 1. a. < shabby finery > < saved fragments of lace from her dresses when they became too shabby for use — American Guide Series: Maryland > b. < shabby, unpainted shacks, dropping with decay — Van Wyck Brooks > < shabby wallpaper > < a shabby neighborhood > 2. < an uncommonly comic doctor, shabby alike in dress and ethics — Brooks Atkinson > < when he … saw the smartly dressed clerks standing before the stores, he looked at his own shabby person and was ashamed to enter — Sherwood Anderson > 3. a. < the Nazis, for all the terrible damage they have done, may turn out to be the shabbiest villains in history — New York Herald Tribune Book Review > < all the efforts of propagandists … could not make the war anything but shabby in its origin — D.W.Brogan > b. < laments the shabby way in which this country often treated a poet so deeply devoted to it — Paul Engle > < concerned both with the dearth of teachers and with the shabby scale on which they are paid — Pleasures of Publishing > < the opinions of the man on the street … are a motley of hand-me-downs, baggy generalities, and shabby prejudices — H.J.Muller > < both parties played furious and sometimes shabby politics — Time > < she drifts into a shabby and then a shabbier love — Carl Van Doren > < the explorer's mistress shows up with the shabby truth of the man's life — Henry Hewes > c. < a shabby allowance > < a shabby gift > < had paid a very shabby dividend — W.M.Thackeray > d. < a shabby lot of fighting men, as their captured officers contemptuously admitted — New Yorker > < a member of a shabby theatrical troupe which tours the provinces — Donald Heiney > < his reasoning is weak, even shabby — J.T.Farrell > Synonyms: see contemptible |
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