Synonyms for shabby
ˈʃæb ishab·by

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1. shabby

   Synonyms:
   ragged, threadbare, contemptible, beggarly, paltry

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1. moth-eaten, ratty, shabby, tattyadjective

   showing signs of wear and tear

   "a ratty old overcoat"; "shabby furniture"; "an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains"

   Synonyms:
   flashy, moth-eaten, ratty, gimcrack, meretricious, tacky, dusty, trashy, loud, garish, brassy, cheap, cold, mothy, tawdry, flash, tatty, stale, gaudy

   Antonyms:
   honourable, honorable, new

2. shabbyadjective

   mean and unworthy and despicable

   "shabby treatment"

   Synonyms:
   ratty, moth-eaten, tatty

   Antonyms:
   honourable, new, honorable

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1. shabbyadjective

   Synonyms:
   ragged, worn, faded, threadbare, worn out

2. shabbyadjective

   Synonyms:
   mean, base, low, vile, grovelling, despicable, contemptible, beggarly, paltry, pitiful, dirty, scurvy, abject, disgraceful, unhandsome, ungentlemanly

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1. shabbyadjective

   Synonyms:
   seedy, threadbare, tacky , mean, despicable, scurvy, contemptible

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1. List of paraphrases for "shabby":

   seedy, shoddy

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How to use shabby in a sentence?

1. W. H. Auden:

   When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

2. Tarrant County:

   I don't think you go on a vacation and disappear, and don't tell anybody, and cut your hair and dye your hair, and hide out in a shabby apartment in a resort town. ... They fought so hard to keep him out of trouble when he killed four innocent people drinking three times the legal limit of alcohol, there's no doubt in my mind that when the video came out that showed him at that party and he was facing a possible revocation of probation, they made a conscious decision to run, and they did.

3. Willa Cather, My Antonia:

   Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

4. Chinese Proverb:

   There is many a good man to be found under a shabby hat.

5. Willa Cather:

   Winter lies too long in country towns hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.