shabbier

Adjective

shabby (comparative shabbier, superlative shabbiest)

1. Of clothing, a place, etc.: unkempt and worn or otherwise in poor condition due to age or neglect; scruffy.
   • They lived in a tiny apartment, with some old, shabby furniture.

   Synonyms:

   decrepit, moth-eaten, run-down, timeworn, tired, tacky, clapped out, damaged, defective, deteriorated

2. Of a person: wearing ragged or very worn, and often dirty, clothing.
   • The fellow arrived looking rather shabby after journeying so far.
3. (figuratively) Of a person, their behaviour, etc.: despicable, mean; also, not generous; stingy, tight-fisted.
   • shabby treatment

   Synonyms:

   ungenerous, as tight as Dick's hatband, cheap, cheeseparing, chintzy, close, close as wax, close-fisted, illiberal, mean

4. (figuratively, often in the negative) Poor in quality; also, showing little effort or talent.
   • His painting is not too shabby.
   1. (archaic, figuratively, often in the negative) Of the pulse: thready, weak.
   2. (UK, dialectal, figuratively, informal, often in the negative) Of weather: wet and dreary.

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