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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

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Noun.

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Torn or worn to rage; poor; mean; ragged.

Wearing

shabby

coats and dirty shirts.

Macaulay.

Clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments.

“The dean was so shabby.”

Swift.

Mean; paltry; despicable;

as,

shabby

treatment

“Very shabby fellows.”

Clarendon.

Adj.

1. Ragged; torn or worn to rags; as a shabby coat; shabby clothes.

2. Clothed with ragged garments.

The dean was so shabby- Swift.

3. Mean; paltry; despicable; as a shabby fellow; shabby treatment. [For the idea expressed by shabby, there is not a better word in the language.]