shabbier; shabbiest
Definition of shabby
1
: clothed with worn or seedy garments
a shabby hobo
2a
: threadbare and faded from wear
a shabby sofa
b
: ill-kept : dilapidated
a shabby neighborhood
3a
: mean, despicable, contemptible
must feel shabby … because of his compromises— Nat Hentoff
b
: ungenerous, unfair
laments the shabby way in which this country often treated a poet— Paul Engle
c
: inferior in quality
shabby reasoning
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The first known use of shabby was in 1669
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