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Adjective: shabby (shabbier,shabbiest)  sha-bee
  1. Showing signs of wear and tear
    "shabby furniture";
    - moth-eaten, ratty, tatty [informal], grotty [Brit, informal]
     
  2. Mean and unworthy and despicable
    "shabby treatment"

Derived forms: shabbier, shabbiest

See also: dishonorable [US], dishonourable [Brit, Cdn], worn

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