shabbiness 的定义
shab·bi·er, shab·bi·est.
- impaired by wear, use, etc.; worn: shabby clothes.
- showing conspicuous signs of wear or neglect: The rooms on the upper floors of the mansion had a rather shabby appearance, as if they had not been much in use of late.
- wearing worn clothes or having a slovenly or unkempt appearance: a shabby person.
- run-down, seedy, or dilapidated: a shabby hotel.
- meanly ungenerous or unfair; contemptible, as persons, actions, etc.: shabby behavior.
- inferior; not up to par in quality, performance, etc.: a shabby rendition of the sonata.
shabbiness 近义词
等同于 negligibility
等同于 negligibleness
等同于 triviality
等同于 trivialness
更多shabbiness例句
- It was written in 1940 by Woody Guthrie, allegedly in a shabby hotel room just outside of Times Square—not on the 6, but close enough.
- A friend sees Etta in a bookstore, in her shabby daily costume — a “wrinkled old evening gown” and sneakers.
- More and more often, I settle into a shabby, cat-clawed wing chair with the day’s newspapers and periodically snort “Harrumph!”
- Ever since I encountered the stunning Tepotztli tools, I’ve been side-eying my shabby cocktail set, quietly suppressing the urge to throw my old tools in the trash and order my dream set.
- Neither is too shabby, considering how porous some other, more experienced clubs have been.
- We met on the third floor of a shabby building in Asadabad in an impossibly spare room that we dragged cushions into.
- Graterford is a forbidding, shabby, woebegone facility built in 1929.
- It was such a lovely, shabby, many deco building town and completely unexploited.
- Are all these setups, coincidences, misunderstandings, a shabby mass tabloid conspiracy, people on the make?
- Not too shabby for a creature less than a year old who had never set a tentacle on the pitch.
- The English have too much pride to be tricky or shabby, even in the essentially corrupting relation of buyer and seller.
- The farmer stooped down, and raised the shabby bonnet from the face of the woman to examine her more carefully.
- He turned into an alley, down which, nautically speaking, he rolled into a shabby little court.
- She still wore the shabby lace and the artificial bunch of violets on the side of her head.
- I am sure there is nothing lower, or more mean and shabby, than getting places and praise a fellow does not deserve.