Definition of shabby
shabbier;
shabbiest
1
: clothed with worn or seedy garments
- a shabby hobo
2 a
: threadbare and faded from wear
- a shabby sofa
b
: ill-kept : dilapidated
- a shabby neighborhood
3 a
: 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
