Thesaurus / shabby
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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.
INAUGURATION MUSICAL PERFORMANCES ARE TRICKY. BUT LADY GAGA, JENNIFER LOPEZ AND GARTH BROOKS DID EXACTLY WHAT WE NEEDED THEM TO DOSTEPHANIE ZACHAREKJANUARY 20, 2021TIMEA friend sees Etta in a bookstore, in her shabby daily costume — a “wrinkled old evening gown” and sneakers.
ADRIENNE KENNEDY’S NEW PLAY, ‘ETTA AND ELLA ON THE UPPER WEST SIDE,’ IS UTTERLY UNIQUEPETER MARKSJANUARY 14, 2021WASHINGTON POSTMore and more often, I settle into a shabby, cat-clawed wing chair with the day’s newspapers and periodically snort “Harrumph!”
HOW DID ALL THESE BOOKS GET INTO MY HOUSE? THERE’S A METHOD TO WHAT SEEMS LIKE MADNESS.MICHAEL DIRDAJANUARY 6, 2021WASHINGTON POSTEver 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.
SOMEONE PLEASE BUY ME THIS GORGEOUS COCKTAIL SETNICK MANCALL-BITELDECEMBER 30, 2020EATERNeither is too shabby, considering how porous some other, more experienced clubs have been.
THE SUNS AND MAVS SHOULDN’T HAVE SURPRISED US … BUT WE DIDN’T SEE T.J. WARREN COMINGCHRIS HERRING (CHRIS.HERRING@FIVETHIRTYEIGHT.COM)AUGUST 5, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHTThe English have too much pride to be tricky or shabby, even in the essentially corrupting relation of buyer and seller.
GLANCES AT EUROPEHORACE GREELEYThe farmer stooped down, and raised the shabby bonnet from the face of the woman to examine her more carefully.
THE WORLD BEFORE THEMSUSANNA MOODIEHe turned into an alley, down which, nautically speaking, he rolled into a shabby little court.
THE GARRET AND THE GARDENR.M. BALLANTYNEShe still wore the shabby lace and the artificial bunch of violets on the side of her head.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINI am sure there is nothing lower, or more mean and shabby, than getting places and praise a fellow does not deserve.
THE DAISY CHAINCHARLOTTE YONGEWORDS RELATED TO SHABBY
- beat
- burned out
- bushed
- busted
- clichéd
- consumed
- depleted
- destroyed
- deteriorated
- dinged
- drained
- drawn
- effete
- exhausted
- fatigued
- frayed
- gone
- hackneyed
- had it
- haggard
- jaded
- kaput
- knocked out
- old
- overused
- overworked
- pegged out
- pinched
- played-out
- pooped
- ragged
- ruined
- shabby
- shot
- spent
- stale
- tattered
- the worse for wear
- threadbare
- timeworn
- tired
- tired out
- totaled
- used-up
- useless
- wearied
- weary
- well-worn
- wiped-out
- worn-down
- worn-out
- wrung out
- beat
- burned out
- bushed
- busted
- clichéd
- consumed
- depleted
- destroyed
- deteriorated
- drained
- drawn
- effete
- exhausted
- fatigued
- frayed
- gone
- hackneyed
- had it
- haggard
- jaded
- kaput
- knocked out
- old
- out of gas
- overused
- overworked
- pinched
- played-out
- pooped
- ragged
- ruined
- shabby
- shot
- spent
- stale
- tattered
- the worse for wear
- threadbare
- timeworn
- tired out
- totaled
- used-up
- useless
- wearied
- weary
- well-worn
- wiped-out
- worn-down
- wrung out
- abject
- afflicted
- base
- bummed
- calamitous
- cheap
- contemptible
- dejected
- deplorable
- depressed
- despicable
- disconsolate
- distressed
- dolorous
- down
- down-and-out
- downcast
- faulty
- flimsy
- forlorn
- gloomy
- hapless
- hopeless
- hurting
- in the pits
- inferior
- low
- low-down
- mean
- melancholy
- miserable
- paltry
- pathetic
- pitiable
- pitiful
- poor
- shabby
- shameful
- sordid
- sorrowful
- sorry
- spiritless
- tragic
- unfortunate
- unhappy
- vile
- weak
- woebegone
- woeful
- worthless
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.