Shabby-Genteel is a 14 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 997 anagrams from letters in shabby-genteel (-abbeeeghlnsty).
First recorded in 1745-55
At eleven o'clock he was clothed as a beggar—at twelve he was shabby-genteel.
And now to relinquish these, and be the actor, in the garish light of the noonday, and a shabby-genteel coat and hat!
Here the last of the Glenalvans—once a proud and wealthy race—dwelt in respectable, shabby-genteel poverty.
It would be difficult to name any particular part of town as the principal resort of shabby-genteel men.
I do not believe the poor put into them, but the reduced rich, the shabby-genteel.
The room was full of debtors of all appearances—from the shabby-genteel down to the absolutely ragged.
Look again—here is a shabby-genteel man who lives by his wits.
Such objects, with few exceptions, are shabby-genteel people.
While he sat there spell-bound, a shabby-genteel man entered and sat down beside him.
French peasants will not set about the day's labour in smart or shabby-genteel clothes.