Shabby - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈʃæbɪ|  American pronunciation of the word shabby
Brit.  |ˈʃæbɪ|  British pronunciation of the word shabby

adjective

- showing signs of wear and tear (syn: moth-eaten, ratty, tatty)
shabby furniture
- mean and unworthy and despicable
shabby treatment

Extra examples

The furniture was old and shabby.

He wore a shabby coat.

Her first apartment was pretty shabby.

They complained about the shabby treatment they received at the hotel.

Backing out of the deal was a shabby thing to do.

It would be horribly shabby of you to desert us now.

This shabby present was an insult to us.

...an employee, disgruntled by the restaurant owner's shabby treatment, turned him in to the IRS...

...a group of shabby hutments that had been erected to shelter the refugees...

...dismayed at the shabby lodgments that were the only option of cross-country travelers at the time...

...the hotel's shabby, outdated exercise room was its paltry attempt at a health spa...

Look at the shabby children paddling through the slush.

He wore a shabby tweed suit and a silk polka dot tie.

Word forms

adjective
comparative: shabbier
superlative: shabbiest
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