adjective (shabbier, shabbiest)
1 (of buildings, clothes, objects, etc.) in poor condition because they have been used a lot:
The outside of the house was beginning to look shabby. * She wore shabby old jeans and a T-shirt.
2 (of a person) badly dressed in clothes that have been worn a lot:
The old man was shabby and unkempt.
3 (of behaviour) unfair or unreasonable:
She tried to make up for her shabby treatment of him. * a shabby affair * It was a shabby way to treat visitors.
shabbily adverb:
shabbily dressed * I think you were very shabbily treated.
shabbiness noun [U]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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