Definitions for shabby

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shabby shab·by

Spelling: [shab-ee]

IPA: /ˈʃæb i/

Shabby is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 57 anagrams from letters in shabby (abbhsy).

Definitions for shabby

adjective

1. impaired by wear, use, etc.; worn:
2. showing conspicuous signs of wear or neglect:
3. wearing worn clothes or having a slovenly or unkempt appearance:
4. run-down, seedy, or dilapidated:
5. meanly ungenerous or unfair; contemptible, as persons, actions, etc.:
6. inferior; not up to par in quality, performance, etc.:

Origin of shabby

1660-70; shab (Middle English; Old English sceabb scab) + -y¹; cognate with German schäbig

Examples for shabby

He wore, indeed, a shabby greenish-gray suit, and a flannel shirt.

Are all these setups, coincidences, misunderstandings, a shabby mass tabloid conspiracy, people on the make?

It was such a lovely, shabby, many deco building town and completely unexploited.

We met on the third floor of a shabby building in Asadabad in an impossibly spare room that we dragged cushions into.

From the sounds, she judged that he was putting on his shabby gray coat.

Graterford is a forbidding, shabby, woebegone facility built in 1929.

Not too shabby for a creature less than a year old who had never set a tentacle on the pitch.

The shabby bag between them attracted Gloria's curious gaze.

And while he slept the ground-squirrel ravaged the pockets of his shabby coat.

It had the well-worn look of an old coat, shabby but comfortable.