shabbiness

Example Sentences

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He did a poorly received grunge collection that incoherently tried to marry haute couture with thrift-store shabbiness, and was fired for it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

The beauties are the glamor routes, the passenger trains that, whatever shabbiness may have befallen their interiors, more than make up for it with the grandeur of what lies outside their windows.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2023

There were plenty of interesting design twists: One jean jacket in Japanese denim had a regal stiffness, which nicely contrasting with the shabbiness of one of its breast pockets being missing.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 24, 2022

Yet there was a creeping shabbiness to the place that made it affordable for the likes of us.

From Washington Post • Feb. 19, 2019

A moment later a small girl appears in the doorway, dressed too nicely for the chaotic shabbiness of the surroundings.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern